Article: 'Comanches' at Brandy Station.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)

Byline: Richard E. Crouch, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The 35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, began with a company of Loudoun and Fairfax men who were recruited in Leesburg in December 1861.

The unit was formed by Elijah V. White, a Marylander from Poolesville who was farming in Loudoun when the war started, and the Battle of Ball's Bluff made him a hero. The battalion served with distinction, and the next year, it was joined by a company of Maryland men and then four more companies from nearby Virginia and Maryland counties and from the Shenandoah Valley.

By the time of the great cavalry battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863 the opening ...

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