Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-17
8rnIIant Aaair Of lie SIKH ono CavaIr,

bE4lllanE A1IalE OF Nhe- SKIN OhtO NaFalfys
A correspondent Of the New York Times,
writing from Warrentcn Junction on the
10th, gives this account Of an affair in
which detachment of the 9th Ohio cav
airy behaved with great gallantry:
aLast Friday, Colonel Lloyd, of the 9th
Ohio cavalry, left this place with recon-
motoring force Of eighty men-forty Of
his own with an equal number Of Indiana
caTalry-to ascertain the positionof things
at Fredericksburg, As miles distant. Moth
ing Of special interest occurred until reach
ing theRappshsnnock at Falmouth, short
distance this side of Portsmouth There
they found small picket force, who mis-
took them for friends, as their blue over
coats were nothing different from many of
those worn by the rebels. These pickets,
in their innocence, even ferried some Of
them across the river in their scoWs before
they were fully aware of their mistake
Others Of the force, in the meantime, cross
ed short distance above. The Colonel
posted half his men on the north bank of
the river. Arriving at Fredericksburg
he found about $50 Of the 18th Virginia
cavalry scattered abount the city in various
directions, some at their breakfast, their
horses in one place and they in another.
The balance of their regiment was doing
picket duty between that city and Rich
mond, and up the north bank of the Rap
pahannock, being relieved every three
days.
The Colonel first charged entirely through
the city with his small force of forty men,
and then back and forth through the streets
in all directions, wherever he could see
few of the enemy assembling, crying out
Bring up the artillery" and striking ter
ror and dismay among both troops and in
habitants, and scattering them in all di-
rections. The surprise was perfect and
eminentIy successful. 1t appears from the
statement of one of the prisoners taken,
that the rebels had often raised the cry of
" The Yankees are coming, in order to see
how quickly their forces could be assem-
bled, and now they regarded the alarm as
q repetition Of former outcries, and did not
believe in the fact until the " Yankees
were really among them. At one time,
our little force Of forty had sixty of the
enemy disarmed and under his control, but
in the general melee some of them broke and
ran. He succeeded, however, in capturing
twenty-nine of them and twenty horses,
which he brought of, together with two
cart-loads of secesh army-cloth, which, at
the time, happened to be passing through
the streets. Some of this cloth, after get
ting well clear Of the city, Che was not fol-
lowed by the army, he had cut up and
given to the rebels for blankets, and the
balance he distributed among his brave
boys who had so gallantly charged upon
theenemy. He had rushed by the barracks
on entering the city, and by the time he
had sufficiently secured the town, quite
force of the enemy was drawn up at that
point to prevent his egress. But the Col
Onel, as wise as brave, bore of in another
direction with his captives and booty, and
safely crossed ford further up. They
arrived at this place about o'clock yes
terday.
Among the prisoners noticed one sixty
two years old, hale and hearty-looking
fellow, a substitute, he said, in place of
his youngest son, some twenty years old,
and sick, He gloried that he had still two
sons in the rebel service. There appear
ed to be more fight in him than in all the
rest. he, too, was provided with a blank
ct from the secesh government cloth be-
fore referred to, and which he said was
selling at Fredericksburg at S13 per yard.
It is composed Of cotton, two parts to one
part wool, and is very shoddy stuff. ="