Battle

Second Dranesville

22 Feb 1864 · 39.09° N, 77.64° W

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When
22 Feb 1864
Kind
Battle
Coordinates
39.09° N, 77.64° W
Description
battle of the American Civil War

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Second Battle of Dranesville

Battle of the American Civil War

The Second Battle of Dranesville, also known as the Ambush at Anker's Shop, was a small cavalry skirmish that took place between Confederate forces under Colonel John Mosby and Union forces under Captain James Sewall Reed east of Dranesville, Virginia in Loudoun County near present-day Sterling on February 22, 1864, as part of Mosby's operations in Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

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