Qualla: Battle of Middleburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/t/battle-of-middleburg-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Middleburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg Battle of Middleburg: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Colonel Alfred Duffie of the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry was French-born, French-accented, and according to the Confederate cavalry he interrupted in Middleburg on the afternoon of June 17, 1863, suicidally bold. He rode 280 troopers into the town where J.E.B. Stuart had his headquarters, scattered the Confederate pickets, and barricaded the streets. By 7 p.m. Stuart's reinforcements had returned. Duffie barricaded harder. By morning he was riding back to Centreville with 4 officers and 27 men. The remainder of his regiment - more than 250 troopers - was dead, wounded, or captured. Duffie never commanded with the Army of the Potomac again.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/t/battle-of-middleburg-wp/dqbt-battle-of-middleburg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Middleburg: Stuart's Screen https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. By mid-June 1863, Robert E. Lee was moving his Army of Northern Virginia north toward Pennsylvania for what would become the Gettysburg campaign. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry had the job of screening the movement - keeping the Union army from finding out where Lee was going by holding...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/t/battle-of-middleburg-wp/dqbt-battle-of-middleburg-stuarts-screen.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Middleburg: Duffie's Charge https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffie was born in Paris in 1833 and had served in the French army in the Crimean War and in Africa before crossing the Atlantic in 1859. By 1863 he was colonel of the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry. On the morning of June 17, Pleasonton sent him out from Cent...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/t/battle-of-middleburg-wp/dqbt-battle-of-middleburg-duffies-charge.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Middleburg: The Trap Closes https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Stuart sent for Beverly Robertson's brigade. By 7 p.m. Robertson's Confederate cavalry was in the streets of Middleburg and Duffie's small regiment was outnumbered ten to one. The Rhode Islanders fought house to house. Stuart's troopers eventually pushed them out. Many of Duffie'...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/t/battle-of-middleburg-wp/dqbt-battle-of-middleburg-the-trap-closes.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Middleburg: The Fight on the 19th https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Two days later, on June 19, Union cavalry returned to Middleburg in force. David McM. Gregg's division and John Buford's division both moved against Stuart, who had withdrawn to a commanding ridge just west of the town. Colonel J. Irvin Gregg, David's first cousin, led the lead U...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/t/battle-of-middleburg-wp/dqbt-battle-of-middleburg-the-fight-on-the-19th.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Middleburg: The Bullet That Took Thirty-Two Years https://qualla.com/battle-of-middleburg/ Photo credit American Battlefield Protection Program, Public domain. Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke was a Prussian cavalry officer, six and a half feet tall, who had crossed the Atlantic in 1862 to volunteer for the Confederacy. He had become Stuart's chief of staff and his closest friend. On June 19, during the fight at Middleburg, von B...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/t/battle-of-middleburg-wp/dqbt-battle-of-middleburg-the-bullet-that-took-thirty-two-years.mp3 0:06 6 full