THE CAVALRY RAID: The Defences of Richmond Entered; A Fight There with a Rebel Battery (3/6/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 3/6/1864

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WILLIAMSBUDGH, Friday, March 4,

That Brig.-Gen. KILPATRICK had started on an expedition to the vicinity of Richmond with a considerable cavalry force and some artillery is generally known to the reading public. The special and most important object of that expedition is not so generally known, and I am not at liberty here to state it. It is sufficient to say, however, that in every other respect it was a complete success, resulting in the destruction of millions of dollars worth of public property belonging to or used by the Confederate Government of the so-called seceded States -- property, some of which cannot be replaced at all, and the whole of it valuable to the rebel Government as all means of carrying on their infernal schemes against the United States. Miles of railroad track on the two principal roads over which LEE transports his supplies for the Northern army of Virginia, have been so thoroughly destroyed, that some time must elapse before the roads can be put in running order again; depots of commissary, ordnance and quartermaster's stores were burnt or destroyed; no less than six grist-mills and one saw-mill, principally at work for the rebel army, were burnt; six canal boats loaded with grain, several locks on the James River Canal, and the almost invaluable coal pits at Manikin's Bend, were destroyed. It is proper to say what every one with the expedition believes, that had it not been for the false information of a guide, the principal object in starting the expedition would have been accomplished. The man who thus dared to trifle with the welfare of his country, when it became evident that one of the most important objects would prove a failure through his willful connivance, was immediately hanged upon the spot;

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Cavalry Raid: The Defences of Richmond Entered – 2-3
Gen. Grant’s Department: Gen. Sherman Moving Back Liesurely – 3
Department of North Carolina: Another Rebel Demonstration Imminent – 4
Department of the South: Successful Expedition up the St. Mary’s River – 4
The War in the West: Gen. Blunt to Take the Field – 4
From the South: Rebel Account of the Battle of Olustee – 4-7
The Sinking of the Housatonic: Order by Admiral Dahlgren – 7
News from Washington: Dispatches to the Associated Press – 7
Proceedings of Congress: House of Representatives – 7-8
Yale College – Munificent Donations – 8
Editorial: Tuesday’s Elections – The Soldiers’ Right to Vote – 8
Grant and Longstreet – 8
Reconstruction – 8-9
Editorial: The Pardoning Power – 9
General City News – 9
The Amendment to the Constitution: Who Are to Act as Inspectors of Election – 9
Counterfeit on the Eastern Bank of Bangor – 9

[BrexitBen]

Mr. Lincoln’s bloody, unnecessary war.

The birth of the modern infatuation with U.S. wars that create far more problems than they pretend to solve.

[Arlis]

“the almost invaluable coal pits at Manikin’s Bend, were destroyed”

Literally my back yard.......

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Will you seek reparations?

[M Kehoe]

“was immediately hanged upon the spot”

Without a court martial?

Moral of story, espionage is a dangerous profession.

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