Battle of Loudoun Heights | |||||||
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Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States of America | Confederate States of America | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Henry A. Cole | John S. Mosby | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion, Potomac Home Brigade | 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
300 | 100 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
26 | 14 |
The Battle of Loudoun Heights was a small cavalry skirmish during the American Civil War between John Mosby's Rangers and Major Henry A. Cole's 1st Potomac Home Brigade Maryland Cavalry on January 10, 1864, in Loudoun County, Virginia. Cole's Cavalry successfully defended a night raid against their camp on Loudoun Heights. The fight was one of the first engagements in which Union forces held their own against Mosby's vaunted partisans.