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Beefsteak Raid
The Beefsteak Raid was a Confederate cavalry raid that took place in September 1864 as part of the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War. Confederate Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton led a force of 3,000 troopers on what was to become a ride to acquire cattle that were intended for the consumption of the Union Army (which was laying siege to Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia).
==Background==
Always lacking in supplies, the Confederate forces that were defending the capital of Richmond were beginning to run out of food. A report by General Robert E. Lee on August 22, 1864, stated that corn to feed the Southern soldiers was exhausted.〔Bakeless, John. ''Spies of the Confederacy'' (Courier Dover Publications, 1997) p. 342.〕 A scout, Sergeant George D. Shadburne, informed General Hampton on September 5, 1864, that there were 3,000 cattle behind Union lines, at Edmund Ruffin's plantation on Coggin's Point, five miles (8 km) away from Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters, which were lightly defended by only 120 Union soldiers and thirty civilians. Sensing an opportunity to increase the army's food stores, Hampton arranged for 3,000 troops to follow him. These men included "several certified Texas cattle thieves".〔Ackerman, Robert. ''Wade Hampton III'' (University of South Carolina Press, 2007), p. 67.〕〔''(Cattle (Beefsteak) Raid )'' Waymarking.com〕〔''(Wade Hampton and the Great Beefsteak Raid )'' Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton Camp No. 273, Sons of Confederate Veterans〕
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