Burning Raid
| Burning Raid | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
"The Burning" in Loudoun County | |||||||
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
| United States of America | Confederate States of America | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Wesley Merritt | John S. Mosby | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3 000 | unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| none |
Animals killed 5 000-6 000 cattle 3 000-4 000 sheep 500-700 horses 1 000 pigs Buildings burnt 230 barns 8 mills 1 distillery Crops burnt 9 100 kg of hay 680 kg of grain Human casualties 12 prisoners | ||||||
The Burning Raid was a Union raid conducted in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun and Fauquier counties in Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War. It was aimed at destroying the forage on which Confederate partisans operating in the area, specifically Mosby's Rangers, subsisted as well as at breaking the will of the citizens of the area for supporting the partisans.