Posted on 07/03/2024 6:31:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the N.Y. Times.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Friday, July 1, 1864.
The following particulars of the cavalry raid of WILSON and KAUTZ, are furnished by an officer connected with Gen. KAUTZ'S division, who took part in the expedition and was seriously wounded. The force embraced the following commands. KAUTZ'S division, consisting of First District Columbia Cavalry, Fifth and Eleventh Pennsylvania, Third New-York Cavalry. First two constitute the brigade, under Col. SPEER. WILSON'S division embraced Second Vermont, with regiments from Ohio, New-Hampshire and New-York. Also, three batteries of artillery, twelve pieces under Lieut. STANTON. KAUTZ started Tuesday, 21st ult., from Bermuda Hundred, crossing the Appomattox on a pontoon bridge, passing through Prince George Court-house, where he was joined by Gen. WILSON, who was in waiting.
On the morning of the 22d, the expedition started, crossing the Weldon road at Reams Station, eleven miles from our extreme left. At Reams' the work of destruction was commenced, no enemy appearing. The depot and public buildings were burned, the track ripped up a considerable distance each way, and fires made, across which the rails were piled, completing the destruction. At Dutch Crossroads, near Reams', a large saw mill was burned. Proceeding across the country, they struck the Lynchburgh road near Fords Station, twenty-two miles from Petersburgh, captured and destroyed two locomotives and thirty freight cars loaded. Men were at once sent for a distance of two miles each way, destroying the track as they proceeded, which was easily accomplished, owing to the fact that the rails were of a kind known as strap rail. By piling fence rails on the track, setting fire to them, the destruction accomplished was most thorough. After heating a few moments the extremities of the rails would spring from their fastenings,
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