Civil War & Reconstruction
Civil War
First Union Occupation
Skirmish at Aquia Church
Skirmish at Aquia Church
On April 2nd, Sickles’ New York brigade left Maryland, opposite Stafford. He and a large force of “one thousand cavalry and 2,000 infantry” left Maryland by steamboat and traveled to Evansport, now called Quantico. On April 4th, they headed south and had a brief skirmish at Aquia Church with “forty Texas scouts.”
