CHAPTER XLIX.

OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, AND PENNSYLVANIA,*

May 1-August 3, 1864.

PART I.

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS.+

May 1-August 3, 1864.- Mosby's operations.

2-19, 1864.- Expeditions against the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.

3, 1864.- Raid on Bulltown, W. Va.

5, 1864.- Raid on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Between Bloomington and Piedmont, W. Va.

8, 1864.- Affair at Halltown, W. Va.

9-13, 1864.- Expedition from Louisa, Ky., to, and skirmish at, Rock-House Cree, W. Va.++

10, 1864.- Skirmish at Lost River Gap, W. Va.

11-14, 1864.- Expedition from Point Lookout, Md., to the Rappahannock River, Va.

12, 1864.- Affair at Strasburg, Va.

13, 1864.- Skirmish near New Market, Va.

14, 1864.- Skirmishes at Rude's Hill and New Market, Va.

15, 1864.- Engagement at New Market, Va.

Skirmish near Strasburg, Va.

15-30, 1864.- Scout from Beverly through Pocahontas, Webster, and Braxton Counties, W. Va.

17, 1864.- Skirmish near Waterford, Va.

20, 1864.- Skirmish at Greenbrier, W. Va.

21, 1864.- Major General David Hunter, U. S. Army, supersedes Major General Franz Sigel in command of the Department of West Virginia.

Skirmish at Newtown, Va.

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* For references in General Grant's final report to operations in the section of country covered by this volume, see Vol. XXXVI, PartI, 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.

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