First Brigade

The Army of the Potomac's Cavalry Corps, Second Division, First Brigade, under Col. John B. McIntosh, included the 1st Maryland, the Purnell Legion, the 1st Massachusetts Company A, the 1st New Jersey, the 1st and 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, and a section of Battery H, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. On July 2, after an exhausting march, it took position about noon on Hanover Road near the intersection with Low Dutch Road, with the Third Brigade on its left. During the afternoon, the Pennsylvania troops, the Purnell Legion, the 1st New Jersey, and Section Battery H, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery skirmished with the 2nd Virginia Infantry for possession of Brinkerhoff's Ridge. About 10 p.m. the line was withdrawn, and with the Third Brigade it bivouacked on Baltimore Pike nearly a mile east of Rock Creek Bridge, while the 1st Massachusetts was with the Sixth Corps. On July 3, returning in the morning and finding the Second Brigade, Third Division in position of the day before, the brigade formed on its left and soon after noon relieved it. About 2 p.m., after a large Confederate force had been observed, Brig. Gen. D. McM. Gregg ordered the Second Brigade, Third Division to return, and the brigade, with the Second Brigade, Third Division, was soon engaged with Major Gen. Stuart's command. About 3 p.m. Brig. Gen. Hampton's and Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's brigades, the reserves that had been concealed on the Stallsmith farm, emerged from the woods in front and charged but were repulsed with the aid of artillery. Casualties were 7 officers and 19 men wounded, 9 men captured or missing, total 35.

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