Virginia, Fairfax, Burke
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On 4 December 1861, fifty-five men of the 3rd New Jersey Infantry, Col. George W. Taylor commanding, set an ambush nearby in retaliation for attacks on Union pickets. They stretched two telegraph wires across Braddock Road at the eastern end of a "perfect bog hole" to dismount riders. Near midnight, twenty-four Georgia Hussars cavalrymen, led by Capt. George F. Waring, entered the trap from the west. A "sheet of fire" erupted from the tree line along the swamp's edge. The Confederates returned fire and escaped with four men wounded and one captured. Union losses were one killed, two wounded and one captured.
(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
On 4 December 1861, fifty-five men of the 3rd New Jersey Infantry, Col. George W. Taylor commanding, set an ambush nearby in retaliation for attacks on Union pickets. They stretched two telegraph wires across Braddock Road at the eastern end of a "perfect bog hole" to dismount riders. Near midnight, twenty-four Georgia Hussars cavalrymen, led by Capt. George F. Waring, entered the trap from the west. A "sheet of fire" erupted from the tree line along the swamp's edge. The Confederates returned fire and escaped with four men wounded and one captured. Union losses were one killed, two wounded and one captured.(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.