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CHAPTER XLIX.

OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA, WEST VIR
GINIA, MARYLAND, AND PENNSYLVANIA.*

*For references in General Grant's final report to operations in the section of
country covered by this volume, see Vol. XXXVI, Part I, pp. 23, 24, 27-29.

† Of some of the minor conflicts noted in this Summary no circumstantial reports
are on file. All such are designated in the Index.

For reports, see Vol. XXXIX.

May

June

July

22, 1864. Skirmish at Front Royal, Va.
24, 1864.-Skirmish near Charlestown, W.Va.
Skirmish near Lewisburg, W. Va.
26-June 29, 1864.-The Lynchburg Campaign.
29, 1864.--Skirmish at Hamlin, W. Va.
Skirmish at Middleburg, Va.
29-30, 1864.—Skirmishes at Newtown, Va.
30-June 20, 1864.-Morgan's raid into Kentucky.*
6, 1864.-Skirmish near Moorefield, W. Va.
9, 1864.-Affair in Loudoun County, Va.
10, 1864. Skirmish near Kabletown, W. Va.
Affair at Newport, Va.

11, 1864.-Skirmish near Midway,

Va.

11-21, 1864.-Expedition from Point Lookout, Md., to Pope's Creek, Va. 12, 1864.-Skirmish at Cedar Creek, Va.

16, 1864.-Skirmish at Spencer, W. Va.

19, 1864.-Affair near Petersburg, W. Va.

23-24, 1864.-Skirmishes near Falls Church and Centreville, Va. 23-Aug. 3, 1864.—Operations in the Shenandoah Valley, Maryland, and

Pennsylvania.

26, 1864.—Skirmishes at Wire Bridge and Springfield, W. Va.
Skirmish at Smithfield, W. Va.

29, 1864.-Skirmishes at Charlestown and Duffield's Station, W. Va.
2, 1864.-Skirmish at Bolivar Heights, W. Va.

3, 1864.-Brig. Gen. George Crook, U. S. Army, assumes command of all U. S. forces in Department of West Virginia

west of the Alleghanies and south of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

4, 1864.-Skirmish at Frankford, W. Va.

6, 1864.-Action at Mount Zion Church, near Aldie, Va.

15, 1864.-Affair at Accotink, Va.

18-21, 1864.-Scout from Falls Church, Va.

20, 1864.-Skirmish at Philomont, Va.

26, 1864.-Scout toward Rapidan Station, Va.
Skirmish at Muddy Branch, Md.

MAY 1-AUGUST 3, 1864.-Mosby's Operations.

Report of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, Forty-third Virginia Cavalry Battalion.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1864. COLONEL: I have the honor to submit for the information of the commanding general the following brief report of the operations of this command since the 1st day March last:t

About May 1, with a party of ten men, I captured 8 of Sigel's wagons near Bunker Hill, in the Valley, but was only able to bring off the horses attached (34 in number) and about 20 prisoners. The horses and prisoners were sent back, while with another detachment

*For reports, &c., see Vol. XXXIX.

For portion here omitted, see Vol. XXXIII, p. 248.

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