Stoneman’s Raid tested the mettle of the Union’s newly formed Cavalry Corps. Fighting Joe Hooker—the Army of the Potomac’s third commander in less than two years—spent early 1863 reorganizing and reenergizing his forces. The army had been hunkered down outside Fredericksburg, Va., on the north side of the Rappahannock River, since its demoralizing defeat the …
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