Over a broad stretch of Culpeper and western Fauquier counties, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening Gen. Robert E. Lee’s move to Gettysburg, fought the Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton in the Battle of Brandy Station. Though the outcome of this June 9, 1863 Civil War battle was indecisive, the engagement was the largest cavalry battle ever fought in North America. At the time of its listing in the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1989, the Brandy Station Battlefield Historic District consisted of two discontiguous geographical areas that contained the significant sites and structures that played an important role in the Battle of Brandy Station. The Brandy Station and Stevensburg units were named for the village that was contained within them. The Brandy Station Battlefield was removed from the Virginia Landmarks Register by legislative directive in 1993.