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The Skirmish of Littlestown was a Pennsylvania military engagement before the Battle of Gettysburg in which "a few companies of skirmishers" of Union infantry defeated a Confederate detachment of J.E.B. Stuart's Cavalry Division. ==Background== On the night of July 29, 1863, the Army of the Potomac was deployed in the Pipe Creek defense in northern Maryland with cavalry divisions north of the state line at Fairfield and at Littlestown〔 (Coddington footnote 100 cites "OR, XXVII, pt. 1, p. 144; pt. 3, p. 375.")〕 (Farnsworth's Brigade of Kilpatrick's Cavalry Division left Littlestown for Hanover in a light rain). Stuart's Confederate cavalry had encamped just south of the Mason–Dixon line: "''Before dawn on the last day of June, scouts returned with word that enemy cavalry was operating northwest of Union Mills just across the Pennsylvania line at Littletown''" ,〔 Not in source: The quoted Bowden and Ward statement has the footnote number "98" which cites "OR 27, pt. 2, p. 696." However, the Official Records of the American Civil War pages 695-6 instead have a less-specific claim with a different time: "''It was ascertained here that night by scouts that the enemys cavalry had reached Littlestown during the night, and encamped. Early next morning (June 30), we resumed the march dire''".〕 and Stuart's forces"marched by crossroads to Hanover"--meeting the Union cavalry in the Battle of Hanover.
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