Battles of Snickerville...

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The “Battle of Snickersville,” October 22, 1862 was made known to the nation through an illustration in Harper’s Magazine: "The Advance-Guard of the Army of the Potomac Attacking the Rebels Near Snickersville." The dramatic print shows two Union cavalrymen in the foreground chasing a rebel on horseback above a prostrate combatant (see Civil War Battles.)

An eye-witness Thomas Osburn of the town, then age fifteen or sixteen, recalled “A Sunday Morning Fight in Snickersville” that took place March 6, 1864.

“Twenty-three New York cavalrymen were surprised by fifteen 6th Virginia cavalrymen under Lt. Joseph A. Gibson and including James Fleet of Snickersville resulting in twenty of the Union horsemen being either killed, wounded, or captured. Sergeant Alfred Caine had been ordered by his Union captain in Hillsboro to take 4 corporals and 18 privates to meet at Purcellville a larger band pursuing a Confederate force near Waterford… The Union dead were placed in the Snickersville church, that evening, to be retrieved by men from their unit. The wounded were cared for by Snickersville women in their homes.”

-- Henry G. Plaster, “Snickersville During the Civil War,” p. 9

Union Captain John Carter recorded the details of this clash, which resulted in four Union killed, two wounded, and 10 taken prisoner; three Confederate killed, one wounded.
 

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Oh... I would fight to take Snickersville, don't you dare get in the way of my candy bar supply-line otherwise I'm stuck with just stale crackers and sloosh.

This is also why Gettysburg was fought, it blocked the road to Hershey, Pa. and the valuable chocolate reserves.
 
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