Qualla: Affair at Glenmore Farm

Affair at Glenmore Farm: Introduction

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Captain Treyhorn was new to the company. He had been with White's Battalion of Confederate cavalry for only a few weeks when he led the scouting party north toward Brunswick, Maryland on October 19, 1862, looking for Federal stragglers from the Antietam aftermath. He stopped at Lovettsville for the night with no reason to think trouble was coming. By dawn the next morning, Union General John W. Geary had two brigades of infantry and 300 cavalry of the 6th New York closing on him from two directions. Treyhorn's sharpshooters climbed onto a stack of hay at a Loudoun County farmstead called Glenmore and held the Federal infantry off for a few minutes, long enough to be remembered. Then the rest of his company broke. The affair at Glenmore Farm was the first major loss for the partisan battalion of Elijah White, and Treyhorn was finished as an officer before the week was out.

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Affair at Glenmore Farm: The Comanches Come Home

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elijah Viers White had grown up near Leesburg and recruited his battalion of Confederate cavalry from the Loudoun farms and villages where he had spent his life. The men called themselves the Comanches and earned a reputation for hard riding and harder fighting. By September 1862...

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Affair at Glenmore Farm: The Shelling of Leesburg

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

While the Battle of Antietam raged on September 17, Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was already moving to reoccupy Leesburg with ten companies of Federal cavalry. He found the town held by a handful of Confederates - one company of the 6th Virginia Cavalry, about forty ...

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Affair at Glenmore Farm: Cattle and Consequences

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

With White recovering from his wounds, command of the battalion fell to First Lieutenant Frank Myers. On October 16, Stonewall Jackson's quartermaster ordered Myers to round up cattle from the Lovettsville area to feed the Army of Northern Virginia. Myers tried and was blocked by...

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Affair at Glenmore Farm: Sharpshooters on a Haystack

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On the morning of October 20, Geary's advance guard captured Treyhorn's pickets and the Confederates began falling back toward Wheatland. At Hillsboro, Geary split his force in two. He sent Devin and the 6th New York east along the Charles Town Pike to Wheatland, then north up th...

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