What is Bristoe Campaign?
{{Infobox military conflict |conflict = Bristoe Campaign |partof = the [[American Civil War]] |image = Meade and Lee.jpg |caption = [[George G. Meade]] and [[Robert E. Lee]],<br/>commanding generals of the Bristoe Campaign |date = {{start-date| October 13, 1863| October 13}} &ndash; {{end-date| November 7, 1863}} |place = [[Virginia]] |result = [[Union Army|Union]] victory<ref name=finddata>{{cite web |url=http://civil-war-battles.findthedata.com/d/a/Main-Eastern-Theater/the-Bristoe-Campaign |title=Battles of the Bristoe Campaign |website=FindTheData |publisher=Graphiq, Inc |access-date=21 August 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |combatant1 = {{flagicon|United States|1863}} [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] |combatant2 = {{flagicon|CSA|1863}} [[Confederacy]] |commander1 = {{flagicon|USA}} [[George G. Meade]] |commander2 = {{flagicon|CSA|1863}} [[Robert E. Lee]] |units1 = [[Army of the Potomac]] |units2 = [[Army of Northern Virginia]] |strength1 = 76,000<ref name=Salmon218>John S. Salmon, ''The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide'' (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001), p. 218</ref> |strength2 = 45,000<ref name=Salmon218/> |casualties3 = 4,815{{efn|The total [[Casualty (person)|casualties]] are the sum of First Auburn (50 total on both sides), Second Auburn (113 total), Bristoe Station (540 Union, 1380 Confederate), Buckland Mills (230 total), and Second Rappahannock Station (461 Union, 2,041 Confederate, of which 1,973 were captured).<ref name=casualties>''The Civil War Battlefield Guide'', Second Edition, ed. Frances H. Kennedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998), pp. 252-255</ref>}} }} The '''Bristoe Campaign''' was a [[series]] of minor [[battle]]s fought in [[Virginia]] during October and November 1863, in the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=bristoeNPS>{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va040.htm |title=Bristoe Station |website=CWSAC Battle Summaries |publisher=The National Park Service, US Department of the Interior |