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By Rob Sherwood
Special to the Rappahannock News
At 4:30 a.m. on June 9, 1863, a column of 5,500 Union cavalry and infantry led by Brigadier General John Buford splashed across Beverly’s Ford and overwhelmed the small detachment of Southern pickets on the Culpeper side of the Hazel River.
To the south of this point, a similar force led by Brigadier General David M. Gregg was crossing at Kelly’s Ford.
This two-pronged assault was planned as a “reconnaissance in force” by Brigadier General Alfred Pleasonton and had the main goal of disrupting the 9,500 cavalry troops under Major General J.E.B. Stuart which were thought to be massing for a raid on Federal supply lines.
What ensued that fog-shrouded morning and into the early afternoon of that hot summer day was to be the largest cavalry conflict in North American history—17,000 horsemen,
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