Campaign: Bristoe Campaign.
Date: October 14, 1863.
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren [US]; Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill [CS].
Estimated Casualties: 1,980 total.
On October 14, Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill’s Confederate Troops came across retreating Union troops at Bristoe Station.
The Confederates attacked.
Howver, Union soldiers of the II Corps were posted behind the Orange & Alexandria Railroad embankment.
Hill was forced to reinforce his line.
In many ways it was a humiliating defeat for Hill.
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