The Largest Cavalry Battle in North America: Brandy Station 160 

8:45 looks like we had an editing glitch on the export that wasn't showing up while editing. We'll use a different effect in the future. Sorry about that!

Thank heavens a race track was not built on this battlefield.

I want to visit this battlefield even more than I want to go to Gettysburg. Both have been a life long dream as well as where the battle of yellow tavern were fought

Getting so excited for all the 160 Gettysburg coverage!

Thank you Chris and Greg and Dan. For your in depth documentary on this Battle at Brandy Station.

There will be troops portraying the 13th Mississippi this weekend also for anyone hoping to see some Johnny 'foot' cavalry!

I am so glad that y'all have posted about this battle. It is one that never gets discussed. I am learning so much from this series that I never knew. Thank you for educating me.

Excellent job guys as always - first class organization.

Don't think I've seen Greg Mertz before but he's wonderful.

I hped to see more battle tactics because I live to far away to comme to Brandy Station , vene it was a verry nice vid to see

was there a number of years ago. Sadly the visitor center was closed and no information was available. Happy that I the battle field guide on my iPad/

I have the highest praise for the work that the American Battlefield Trust does. Your most recent efforts in chronicling Chancellorsville is a mammoth effort and I thank you for that. My work is in recreational land acquisition so I can appreciate your efforts in the the preservation of this precious land. However, please note that Hooker is quite alive and well here at Brandy Station. It is HIS cavalry. Remember when we get to Gettysburg that it is not Meade's ARMY, it is one he borrows from Joe Hooker. .Joseph Hooker’s Cavalry gives a surprise attack on JEB Stuart at Brandy, also called the Battle of Fleetwood Hill. It was kind of a reversal of the roles at Chancellorsville. Confederate newspapers were highly critical of the Stuart's Confederate Cavalry at Brandy Station. Lee should have listened to his own press in their criticism of Stuart for his own good coming in to Gettysburg. The June 12th, 1863 edition of the Richmond Examiner seethed. Just days before, Lee's Confederate cavalry had been caught completely by surprise in a daring strike by their Union counterparts at Brandy Station Virginia, and only after a hard fight with the help of Southern infantry was the enemy repulsed. “But this puffed up cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia,” the Examiner crowed, “has been twice, if not three times, surprised since the battles of December, and such repeated accidents can be regarded as nothing but the necessary consequences of negligence and bad management.” Such humiliations were unacceptable, and the Examiner concluded by charging that better organization, more discipline, and greater earnestness among “vain and weak-headed officers” was needed. Other Southern papers offered more of the same. The Richmond Sentinel called for greater “vigilance…from the Major General down to the picket.” The Charleston Mercury thought the affair an “ugly surprise,” while the Savannah Republican thought it all “very discreditable to somebody.” The effects of the Battle of Brandy Station were felt far beyond the banks of the Rappahannock. It gives an early view of J.E.B. Stuart's dereliction of duty at Gettysburg. This embarrassment caused Stuart to try to redeem himself and went on his long disappearance during the Gettysburg campaign. This battle marked the end of the Confederate cavalry's dominance in the East. From this point in the war, the Federal cavalry gained strength and confidence.

Yall should do a video on the Battle of Monroes Crossroads. Its the last cavalry battle of the war. Its on the grounds of Ft. Bragg.

Greg didn't mention the Gettysburg screening at 4pm on Sunday with writer/director Ron Maxwell. They're going to show the entire movie with an intermission.

wasn't gamble and devin both at brandy station and gettysburg

What cavalry battle rivaled Brandy Station, that MIGHT keep it from being the largest in the US?

Benjamin Davis was not a former regular army officer. Even though he was the colonel of the 8th New York Cavalry he retained his commission as a captain in the First United States Cavalry.

My Grandfather was in the 2nd New York Cav and was taken prisoner on July 4th then sent to Belle Isle Prison, Richmond, VA

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Funny thing about the Cavalry, the Allied Armies had to learn the same lesson early in WW2, with Armour, tended to spread out the Tanks to much instead of concentrating them into Armoured Units.

Darn it, I held off watching this video and missed the reenactments.

Ok, what is horse artillery? Could someone explain?

Omeom the attend thamade Custer a hero

I keep trying too wipe off the tiny bug crawling across my screen; only to realize it's a plane flying overhead in the distance.

Thank you! I plan to visit this weekend and hopefully see the inside of the Graffiti House. I've been there a half dozen times and its always been closed. Unfortunately, the Graffiti House has become a victim of woke, cancel-culture staff. They cut down the Alabama state flag pole beside Pelham's marker and the flag pole that flew the 3rd National Flag while keeping the Federal and state flag.

Okay so what happened?? Were they all fighting from horseback, swords clashing and pistols blazing? Were just some fighting from horseback and rest dismounted? What happened on the battlefield? That’s what we want to know!

Was that flashing when you put a photo supposed to happen? Don’t do that. Makes no sense