After breaking off the fighting of June 11, 1864, Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton’s cavalry division withdrew to a position near Ogg Farm. The next morning, Gen. Matthew C. Butler’s South Carolinians prepared a stout defensive position along the Virginia Central Railroad, establishing an L-shaped line to block Union Gen. Philp H. Sheridan’s route to Gordonsville. The apex of that line, near here, became known as the Bloody Angle during heavy fighting later that day. Col. Richard H. Dulany’s and Col. Gilbert J. Wright’s brigades supported the South Carolinians and extended the line past the Ogg House and along the Charlottesville Road. The Danne Store and Gentry Farm stood on the narrow ridge in front of the Confederate line, and behind that ridge was the staging area for numerous Union assaults. After spending the morning of June 12 destroying more than three miles of the Virginia Central Railroad and burning Trevilian Station, Union Gen. Alfred T.A. Torbert’s cavalry division moved toward Gordonsville about 2 P.M. Torbert’s horse soldiers soon encountered Butler’s strong defensive works, and Gen. George A. Custer’s Wolverines deployed to attack them. The 1st Michigan, supported by the 7th Michigan, assaulted along the railroad tracks but was repulsed with heavy losses, then withdrew and played no further significant role in the day’s fighting.