Today is the 152nd anniversary of the Battle of Brandy Station, VA. On 9 Jun 1863 the mounted men of Cobb's Legion Cavalry played a crucial part in helping to ensure a Confederate victory during this mostly all cavalry engagement. After fighting almost all morning near St. James Church, they were ordered to charge up the southern end of Fleetwood Hill, approximately a mile away, to help defend it from three approaching Yankee cavalry regiments and an artillery battery trying to overtake this strategic part of the battlefield, which was also the location of J.E.B. Stuart’s headquarters. What is impressive about what these brave Confederate cavalrymen accomplished here is that they were instrumental in successfully sweeping the hill clear of the enemy and they did so with only somewhere between 100 and 120 mounted men, according to Lt. Col. Will Delony, 2nd in command of the Legion cavalry. Capt. Edge Eve of company K, the Richmond Dragoons, stated they had 129 mounted participants. For years I had thought most of the men of Cobb's Legion Cavalry were mounted and present for the battle at Fleetwood Hill, but found out later many of them were fighting dismounted as sharpshooters on another part of the battlefield, one company was away from the area on picket duty and several hundred more were in Georgia obtaining fresh remounts.