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Federal Naval Assault on Fort Sumter and Culpeper Cavalry Action
A night Federal storming party from Dahlgren’s fleet attacks Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, meeting ironclad and shore fire. Stevens orders the landing but the assault fails. Separately, Steele’s column reaches Little Rock and Price withdraws. Kilpatrick’s cavalry at Culpeper drives Stuart’s forces back across the Rapidan and secures Culpeper Court House.
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Fort Sumter
Rappahannock
Culpeper Court House
George L. Kilmber
J. A. Dahlgren
Charleston
Morris Island
Wagner
Thomas H. Stevens
Patapsto
Dahlgren
Stevens
Fort Johnson
Fort Moultrie
P. G. T. Beauregard
Keokuk
Sumter
E. P. Williams
Powhatan
Williams
C. H Bradford
Moultrie and
Johnson
Higginson
Bradford
Eliott
Admiral Dahlgren
White River
Frederick Steele
Arkansas
Little Rock
Sterling Price
Price
Red River
Steele
Marmaduke
J. W. Davidson
Arkadelphia
Washita
Falling Waters
R. E. Lee
Potomac
Gettysburg
Judson Kilpatrick
J. B. B. Stuart
Lee
Rapidan
Great River
George G. Meade
Culpeper
Kilpatrick
H. B. Davies, Jr
Kelly's Ford
Brandy Station
Stuart
Davies
Second
New York
Fifth New York
Second New York
West Virginia Cavalry
West