Bristoe Campaign

Bristoe Campaign
Part of the American Civil War
George G. Meade and Robert E. Lee, commanding generals of the Bristoe Campaign
Date October 13 (1863-10-13) – November 7, 1863 (1863-11-08) Location Virginia Result Union victory[1]
Belligerents
Union	Confederacy
Commanders and leaders
George G. Meade	Robert E. Lee
Units involved
Army of the Potomac	Army of Northern Virginia
Strength
76,000[2]	45,000[2]
Casualties and losses
4,815[a]

The Bristoe Campaign was a series of minor battles fought in Virginia during October and November 1863, in the American Civil War.^[4] Major general George G. Meade, commanding the Union Army of the Potomac, began an unsuccessful attempt to defeat General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.^[5] Lee countered with a turning movement. Not willing to do battle on ground he did not choose, Meade gradually withdrew his army back toward Centreville.^[6] His object was to keep Lee from getting between his Union forces in Virginia and Washington, DC.^[7]

1. ↑ "Battles of the Bristoe Campaign". FindTheData. Graphiq, Inc. Retrieved 21 August 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} John S. Salmon, The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001), p. 218
3. ↑ The Civil War Battlefield Guide, Second Edition, ed. Frances H. Kennedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998), pp. 252-255
4. ↑ "Bristoe Station". CWSAC Battle Summaries. The National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
5. ↑ "Fauquier County in the Civil War" (PDF). The Fauquier County Sesquicentennial Planning Committee. Retrieved 21 August 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
6. ↑ Kennedy Hickman (12 August 2015). "American Civil War: Bristoe Campaign". About Education. About.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
7. ↑ "The Bristoe Station Campaign". Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. Retrieved 21 August 2016.