Qualla: Battle of Mile Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-mile-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Mile Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-mile-hill Battle of Mile Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-mile-hill/ The lane was unguarded. Smart's Mill Lane ran along the river just west of Leesburg, and on the morning of September 2, 1862, Colonel Tom Munford of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry rode his regiment up that lane and around the left flank of Major Henry Cole's Maryland Cavalry, who had set up a defensive position just north of town near a place called Big Spring. Cole did not know Munford was behind him until the rifle volleys began. By the time he tried to mount his troopers, many of them were dead or wounded beside their horses. The battle that the locals would call Mile Hill lasted only minutes. It cleared Loudoun County of Federal cavalry, opened the road from the Manassas battlefields to the Potomac fords, and let Robert E. Lee start the invasion of Maryland that would end fifteen days later in the cornfields of Antietam.

Read more: Battle of Mile Hill on Qualla

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/y/battle-of-mile-hill-wp/dqby-battle-of-mile-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Mile Hill: After Second Bull Run https://qualla.com/battle-of-mile-hill/ Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had spent the previous week mauling John Pope's Army of Virginia at the Second Battle of Bull Run, then failed to deliver a knockout blow at Chantilly in a thunderstorm on September 1. Pursuing the Federals further toward the Washington fortificati...

Read more: Battle of Mile Hill on Qualla

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/y/battle-of-mile-hill-wp/dqby-battle-of-mile-hill-after-second-bull-run.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Mile Hill: Two Columns https://qualla.com/battle-of-mile-hill/ On the morning of September 2, Munford reached the eastern outskirts of Leesburg and split his command in two. He sent Captain Jesse Irvine, Jr. with one squadron straight up the Leesburg Pike - today's Route 7 - and into town, while he took the rest of the regiment north off the...

Read more: Battle of Mile Hill on Qualla

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/y/battle-of-mile-hill-wp/dqby-battle-of-mile-hill-two-columns.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Mile Hill: The Flank https://qualla.com/battle-of-mile-hill/ Munford had been working his way north along the river the whole time, hidden from view by the rolling ground. He came up Smart's Mill Lane - the access road behind Cole's position that nobody had thought to picket - and struck the Maryland Cavalry from the rear. The volleys hit ...

Read more: Battle of Mile Hill on Qualla

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/y/battle-of-mile-hill-wp/dqby-battle-of-mile-hill-the-flank.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Mile Hill: Two Days Later https://qualla.com/battle-of-mile-hill/ On September 4, Robert E. Lee rode into Leesburg with the Army of Northern Virginia. The town was Confederate in sympathy and welcomed him without resistance. Two days after that, on September 6, his vanguard crossed the Potomac at White's Ford a few miles north. The Maryland Cam...

Read more: Battle of Mile Hill on Qualla

]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/y/battle-of-mile-hill-wp/dqby-battle-of-mile-hill-two-days-later.mp3 0:06 5 full