Stoneman's 1865 raid | |||||||
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Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
![]() Historical marker in Blowing Rock, North Carolina marking location where Gen. Alvan Cullem Gillem led the cavalry during Stoneman's raid | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
George Stoneman Alvan Gillem |
Joseph E. Johnston P. G. T. Beauregard | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
4-6,000: 2nd and 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry Regiments 8th, 9th and 13th Tennessee Cavalry Regiments 11th and 12th Kentucky Cavalry Regiments | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown | Unknown |
Stoneman's raid in 1865, also called Stoneman's last raid,[1] was a military campaign in the Upper South during the American Civil War, by Union cavalry troops led by General George Stoneman, in the region of eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia.
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