September 15, 1864
Federal reconnaissance toward Dinwiddie Court-House, and skirmish, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
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Mentions of This Date at The Siege of Petersburg Online:
- 150 Years Ago Today: Hampton’s Beefsteak Raid: September 15, 1864
- 3rd Brigade (Baxter), Fifth Corps Reconnaissance of the Boydton Plank Road, September 15, 1864 (Official Records)
- Beefsteak Raid by Edward Boykin
- Blue & Gray Magazine, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (2005): The Petersburg Campaign: Beefsteak Raid & Applejack Raid
- DI: September 1864 John D. Vautier (88th PA) Diary Entries
- ITINERARY: 85th Pennsylvania
- LT: September 15, 1864 Henry F. Young (7th Wisconsin)
- LT: September 15, 1864 Luke Ostrye
- LT: September 15, 1864 Thomas J. Owen (50th NY Engineers)
- MAP: The Cattle Raid, September 16, 1864 (Newspaper Map)
- NP: September 20, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Hampton’s Dash Upon the Enemy, Sept. 14-17
- NP: October 7, 1894 Charleston (SC) News and Courier: A Brilliant Cavalry Coup
- NP: October 5, 1902 The State (Columbia, SC): Hampton’s Cattle Raid in 1864
- NP: November 1, 1908 Charleston (SC) News and Courier: Butler and His Cavalry
- NP: September 20, 1914 Charlotte NC Observer: Hampton’s Cattle Raid
- NP: February 25, 1925 Potsdam NY Courier and Freeman: Orlando P. Benson Diary, 92nd NY, Part 3
- NP: September 14, 1964 Petersburg Progress-Index: Siege Centennial, Part 28: Hampton’s Great Cattle Raid
- OR XLII P1 #4: Report of Captain Nathaniel A. Richardson, Commissary of Subsistence, September 16, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #5: Reports of Major General George G. Meade, commanding AotP, August 1-December 12, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #6: Itinerary of the Army of the Potomac and Army of the James, August 1-December 31, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #12: Reports of Major Benjamin F. Fisher, Chief Signal Officer, AotP, August 1-October 31, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #17: Reports of Major General Winfield S. Hancock, commanding II/AotP, August 12-October 28, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #165: Report of Brigadier General Henry Baxter, commanding 2/3/V/AotP, September 15, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #228: Reports of Captain Samuel H. Rhoads, Btty D PA Lt Arty, Aug 1-Oct 28, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #231: Report of Asst. Surg. Elias J. Marsh, Surgeon-in-Chief, 2/Cav/AotP, July 30-Dec 12, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #242: Reports of Lieutenant Colonel John K. Robinson, 16th PA Cav, Sept 15 and Oct 27, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #362: Reports of Major General Bushrod R. Johnson, commanding Johnson/DNCSV, Aug 2-Dec 31, 1864
- OR XLII P1 #374: Reports of Major General Wade Hampton, C. S. Army commanding Cav/ANV, Aug 25, Sept 14-17, Sept 29-Oct 1, Oct 27-28, and Dec 7-11, 1864
- The Siege of Petersburg in Early September 1864 by Bryce Suderow