Battle of Kelly's Ford

Battle of Kelly's Ford
	Part of the American Civil War
	; Plan showing battleground and cavalry fight, March 17, 1863, Kelly's Ford, Virginia.
Date	March 17, 1863
Location	Culpeper County, Virginia ; Fauquier County, Virginia
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
United States (Union)	CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
William W. Averell	Fitzhugh Lee
Strength
2,100	800
Casualties and losses
78 total ; 6 killed ; 50 wounded ; 22 missing	133 total ; 11 dead ; 88 wounded ; 34 captured

The Battle of Kelly's Ford, also known as the Battle of Kellysville or Kelleysville,^[3] took place on March 17, 1863, in Culpeper County, Virginia, as part of the cavalry operations along the Rappahannock River during the American Civil War. It set the stage for Brandy Station and other cavalry actions of the Gettysburg Campaign that summer. Twenty-one hundred troopers of Brig. Gen. William W. Averell's Union cavalry division crossed the Rappahannock to attack the Confederate cavalry that had been harassing them that winter. Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee counterattacked with a brigade of about 800 men. After achieving a localized success, Union forces withdrew under pressure in late afternoon, without destroying Lee's cavalry.

^ U.S. National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services, CWSAC Battle Summaries; Kelly's Ford or Kellysville, Retrieved May 8, 2014.
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[1] U.S. National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services, CWSAC Battle Summaries; Kelly's Ford or Kellysville, Retrieved May 8, 2014.

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