Qualla: Battle of Unison https://qualla.com/battle-of-unison 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/w/battle-of-unison-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Unison https://qualla.com/battle-of-unison Battle of Unison: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-unison/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is a particular kind of fighting that happens in stone-wall country, and Loudoun Valley in the autumn of 1862 was made for it. The fields are small and rectangular. The walls are chest-high. Horsemen who try to charge across them either jump or die, and the men crouched behind them can fire all afternoon. For three days in early November, J.E.B. Stuart used those walls to do what cavalry are not generally supposed to do - hold ground against an entire army. He was buying time for Robert E. Lee, who was trying to slip the Army of Northern Virginia south of the Rappahannock before George McClellan could pin him against it. Stuart bought the time. He also lost the ground. Riding with him through the fight was a young scout from Powhatan County who had never seen this part of Virginia before. His name was John Mosby, and he was paying close attention.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/w/battle-of-unison-wp/dqbw-battle-of-unison-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Unison: After Antietam https://qualla.com/battle-of-unison/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. The bloodiest single day in American history had ended six weeks earlier on a creek in Maryland. Lee had escaped back across the Potomac. For most of October 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia rested and refitted in the Shenandoah Valley while McClellan, characteristically cauti...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/w/battle-of-unison-wp/dqbw-battle-of-unison-after-antietam.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Unison: Three Days of Running Fights https://qualla.com/battle-of-unison/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. On October 31, Stuart and Brigadier General Fitzhugh Lee crossed the Blue Ridge into Loudoun and bivouacked at Bloomfield. The next day they rode the Snicker's Gap Turnpike toward Mountville, where they surprised about a hundred Federals, killed or captured nearly all of them, an...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/w/battle-of-unison-wp/dqbw-battle-of-unison-three-days-of-running-fights.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Unison: Stone Walls at Unison https://qualla.com/battle-of-unison/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Unison sits at a country crossroads, and on November 2 it became, for one long day, the seam between two armies. Stuart positioned himself there to keep Federal cavalry away from D.H. Hill's infantry at Upperville. The Federals declined to press the attack that day. By eight the ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/b/w/battle-of-unison-wp/dqbw-battle-of-unison-stone-walls-at-unison.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Unison: What Mosby Learned https://qualla.com/battle-of-unison/ Photo credit Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Stuart planned to renew the fight the next morning. His scouts soon reported that the whole of the Federal army was bearing down on him, so he crossed the Blue Ridge at Ashby's Gap to rejoin Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley. He had lost the field at Unison. He had also ...

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