Battle of Brandy Station • Tour the Battlefield • Historical & Wayside Markers • The Armies
The Battle of Brandy Station monument was erected on Fleetwood Hill in 1929. The monument is on the south side of Fleetwood Heights Road (County Route 685) at the crest of Fleetwood Hill, (38.509716° N, 77.879244° W; map). It is up a short flight of stone steps from the shoulder of the highway.
The monument is one of a series erected around Virginia in the 1920s by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate Civil War battlefields. Consisting of a cast metal tablet set onto a masonry base and placed alongside main roads, they were some of the first highway markers.
Two wayside markers about 0.4 mile to the west, The Race for Fleetwood Hill and The Struggle for Fleetwood Hill, tell more of the story of the last phase of the Battle of Brandy Station.
From the marker:
Battle of Brandy Station
Greatest cavalry battle of the Civil War
Fought June 9, 1863
Gen. J.E.B. Stuart defeated Gen. A. Pleasonton
Confederates engaged 10,200. Federals 10,900
Casualties, Confederates, 485, Federals 866
This is Fleetwood Hill
The crucial position
Finally occupied by the Confederates
