cavalry were engaged in a desperate battle that raged

cavalry were engaged in a desperate battle that raged for many hours and was to have far-ranging effects on the Gettysburg campaign that lay just three weeks in the future.

Clark B. (Bud) Hall, eminent Civil War author and historian, will be examining this battle and its effects on cavalry tactics and strategy in both the South and the North at the next meeting of the Blue Ridge Civil War Round Table. This meeting will be on Tuesday, Feb. 19 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Rappahannock County Library.

The Blue Ridge Civil War Round Table is in its third year. It promotes awareness of our Civil War heritage by monthly meetings which are addressed by a range of Civil War experts. The Round Table also sponsors projects to commemorate local Civil War sites and helps to publicize the many Civil War commemorative events in our region.

The Round Table serves Rappahannock, Culpeper, and Madison counties, and has members from many other surrounding counties. It welcomes guests and visitors at all its meetings and functions, and encourages everyone to get more involved in the rich fabric of local history in the Piedmont.

Mr. Hall is a widely published Civil War author and devoted battlefield preservationist. He is a Director of the Brandy Station Foundation, which has purchased much of the Brandy Station Battlefield and has ambitious plans to build an interpretive museum there soon.

He is co-founder of the Chantilly Battlefield Association which is working hard to preserve that battlefield in Fairfax County. Mr. Hall is also a co-founder and ex-Secretary of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites, Inc.

Mr. Hall recently received the Civil War Society’s “Anne D. Snyder Award,” in recognition of “Heroism in the Fight to Preserve our Nation’s Civil War Battlefields.”