Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson

Life Span
to
Full name
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Place of Birth
Wantage Township, NJ
Burial Place
West Point Cemetery, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
 Simon Kilpatrick (father), Julia Wickham Kilpatrick (mother), Alice Kilpatrick (first wife), Luisa Fernandez de Valdivieso (second wife)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Politician
Military
Diplomat
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Republican
Government
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Grant Administration (1869-77)
Diplomat
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
Date Event
Thousands of cavalrymen clash at Brandy Station, Virginia, in the largest cavalry battle of the war
Union cavalry try to break through the Confederate cavalry screen at Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia
In Virginia, a future director of the Metropolitan Museum wins the Medal of Honor while under arrest
Near Upperville, Virginia, Union cavalry again clashes with the Confederate cavalry screen
Three young Union cavalrymen are promoted as brigade commanders, including one named Custer
Heavy fighting with Union cavalry at Hanover, Pennsylvania again delays Stuart's Confederate cavalry
- Union forces pursue Lee's into Maryland and Stuart's covering Confederates clash with Union cavalry
Federal cavalry defeat the rearguard of Lee's army at Falling Waters but the main force escapes
Union cavalry capture Culpeper, Virginia after a sharp mounted action through the town
- Union forces break the last Confederate efforts to defend Atlanta at the Battle of Jonesborough
Sherman's March
Date Title
William T. Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant, Smithfield, North Carolina, April 12, 1865
Date Title
William Seward to Judson Kilpatrick, Washington, DC, June 2, 1866
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