Posted on 03/07/2024 6:16:28 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WILLIAMSBURGH, VA., 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 a 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; thus meeting
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The Rebel Spirit – 7
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