Trevilian Station Battle

In June 1864, Major General Philip H. Sheridan led a Union cavalry raid against the Virginia Central Railroad here, defended by Major General Wade Hampton and Major General Fitzhugh Lee during a two-day battle. On June 11, the first day, Union Brigadier General George A. Custer's brigade got between Lee's division and the rest of Hampton's cavalry and captured Hampton's supply wagons. The Confederates counterattacked and virtually surrounded Custer, who led his troopers in a breakout charge just as Federal reinforcements arrived. Hampton recaptured his wagons, then withdrew two miles west of the station while Lee bivouacked a mile east.

Virginia · United States