BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Bristoe Station

VA -- Bristoe Station:

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[1] BRISTO_060226_01.JPG	[2] BRISTO_060226_16.JPG	[3] BRISTO_060226_18.JPG
[4] BRISTO_060226_27.JPG	[5] BRISTO_060226_33.JPG	[6] BRISTO_060226_42.JPG
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BRISTO_060226_01.JPG: This picture is taken from the location of Bristoe Station itself. Warren's troops were moving left to right, toward Centreville. The Confederates appeared on the hills in front of you, with the Union artillery defending from the rise behind us. The Confederate forces came over the hills on either side of this road. Broad Run is located to the right and about one-third of a mile.
2. BRISTO_060226_33.JPG: This picture is taken from the direction of the new development by Centex Homes. The Confederates would have been seeing this position. Their guns would have been posted about where the silo is now. The Confederates gave up these guns when their attack faltered.
3. BRISTO_060226_82.JPG: This intersection is US 28 and 619. Heth's men came down from where the new housing development is going up as they approached the battle.
Wikipedia Description: Battle of Bristoe Station
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The Battle of Bristoe Station was fought on October 14, 1863, between Union and Confederate forces in the American Civil War. The Union army was led by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, the Confederates by General Robert E. Lee. Lee had stolen a march, forcing Meade to retreat toward Centreville. Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, commanding II Corps in Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's absence, was following V Corps on this retreat. II Corps had two encounters with Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry near Auburn, one nicknamed "Coffee Hill." (Confederate shells interrupted Federals who were boiling coffee.)

Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill, leading the Confederate Third Corps, reached Bristoe Station on October 14. (The town is variously called Bristoe, Bristow, and Bristo in contemporary newspapers.) Hill tried to harass the rearguard of V Corps, but he missed the presence of II Corps. Warren hid his forces behind a railroad embankment near Bristoe Station. Warren sprung a powerful ambush as Hill's corps moved to attack the Federal rear guard. Maj. Gen. Henry Heth's division suffered serious losses, including a battery captured in a Federal counterattack. But Warren, seeing Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps coming up on his left, eventually had to withdraw. Lee is supposed to have cut off Hill's excuses by saying, "Bury these poor men, general, and we'll say no more about it." (One of the casualties was Confederate Brig. Gen. Carnot Posey, who died of his wound.) The Union forces won the battle, but the Confederates destroyed a railroad during their retreat. Meade had to rebuild the railroad when he reoccupied the area around Bristoe Station. Warren won such reputation as a corps commander that he was given V Corps as a regular assignment after Hancock returned to the Army of the Potomac in 1864.
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