Editing Battle of Upperville (section)

==Background==
The [[Union Army|Union]] [[cavalry]] made a determined effort to pierce [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[Major General (CSA)|Maj. Gen.]] [[J.E.B. Stuart]]'s cavalry screen. Stuart had been fighting a series of delaying actions in the [[Loudoun Valley]], hoping to keep Union General [[Alfred Pleasonton]]'s cavalry from discovering the location of the main body of [[Robert E. Lee]]'s [[Army of Northern Virginia]], much of which was in the [[Shenandoah Valley]] just west of the small village of Upperville. Stuart had slowed the Federals in fighting at [[Battle of Aldie|Aldie]] and [[Battle of Middleburg|Middleburg]], using ravines, creeks, and stonewalls to his advantage as he slowly withdrew westward. He made another determined stand near Upperville and succeeded in preventing the Federal cavalry from entering the Shenandoah Valley.