The Bog Wallow Ambush was a small unit action during the American Civil War that took place between Confederate forces under Captain J. Fred.

Following the Battle of Ball's Bluff on October 21, 1861, major offensive action was halted in the eastern theater, as both armies went into winter quarters.

On the night of November 5, 1861, a shootout occurred between members of the units later involved in the ambush at Oak Hill mansion, in an area of such probing and patrolling.

Waring Georgia Hussars (later Jeff Davis Cavalry Legion, Company 'F') Commander: Col George W. Taylor 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, part of the First New Jersey Brigade On December 4, 1861, 3rd New Jersey Infantry troops stretched two telegraph wires across Braddock Road at the eastern end of a "perfect bog hole" to dismount riders of the Georgia Hussars in the middle of the night.

However, it is representative of many such actions in northern Virginia during the early part of the American Civil War.