Union
General Robert Patterson’s division crossed the Potomac marching for
Martinsburg, Virginia on July 2nd 1861. Two of his Brigades under the command of
Colonel John Joseph Abercrombie and Colonel George Henry Thomas ran into some of Colonel
Thomas J Jackson’s men near Hoke’s Run.
The Union troops slowly pushed Jackson’s men back. Jackson’s orders were to delay any Union
advances, which he accomplished in the face of Patterson’s much large force.
Patterson
continued his move toward Martinsburg, occupying the city on July 3rd
1861. This small battle produced about
23 Union casualties and about 91 Confederate ones.
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