Fight at Aldie

Fight at Aldie
Part of the American Civil War
Date March 2, 1863 Location Aldie, Loudoun County, Virginia 38°59′N 77°38′W / 38.98°N 77.64°W / 38.98; -77.64 Result Confederate victory
Belligerents
United States of America	Confederate States of America
Commanders and leaders
Franklin T. Huntoon	John S. Mosby
Units involved
1st Vermont Cavalry	Mosby's Rangers
Strength
50	17-28
Casualties and losses
19 (captured)	1 (wounded)
class=notpageimage| Location of the fight in Virginia

The Fight at Aldie was a small cavalry skirmish between Confederate forces under Major John S. Mosby and Union forces under Major Joseph Gilmore^[1] and Captain Franklin T. Huntoon in Aldie, Virginia, on March 2, 1863, as part of Mosby's Operations in Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. The fight which resulted in a Confederate victory was significant in that it was the first action of Mosby's Rangers within their operating territory in the central Loudoun Valley. In the fight Mosby and his men displayed many characteristics that would become their hallmark including the attack on numerically superior force while inflicting disproportionate casualties to those received.