Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-12-31
nHRlCsHr REDkL CAxALKY RAID.

TUs EICsST REBEL CAVALRY RAID.
in pfIic.r doing duty with a portion OF our
hoops " no were engasedwith Stuarts cavalry
near Occaquan on Sunday last, having been
Tadr 4 prisoner, released Thy S;uartl yes
teraay, with three wounded Union soldiers,
near Chantilly. lie brings hither further and
very interesting Information Of the affair.
He was captured, with thirty Ave Of tho ID
and i.th Penns vania ca VARY, near Occoquan.
II Seems that a detachment OF about SO men
from those two ard an Illinois cavalry regi-
nlent-the 18th, we beleve-had crossed the
Occoqusn 10 hunt up rome suspicious chnrac.
tsrs lurking there.
AT Bacon race, abou: six miles above the
village OF Occaquon, they came across q large
body Of retel cavalry apparently sax seven
thousand strong, with six pieces OF artillery
Our officers, Capt. Chauncey and Ii. Leach,
who were with the advance, saw at glancc
ihas fight WAS necessary, If but to afford their
main body an opportunity TO get back across
the stream, and accordingly charged upon the
encrny's rickets, driving them from the crest or
the hill there, to which they advasced.
On seeing the strength OF the rebels from tina,
point, they retired on our main body, being
pressed ny the enemy. The whole sour tirnes
formed IN lire Of battle ere crossing th. strpar,
fehurg nearly all The way back They Lost
killed, and four men wounded and thirty five
riisontrs, including hat the single officer, who
has reached HIRE. The balance crossed tho
stream in safrty.
In the course Of this engagement, the Rebels
lost one Major and a Captain killed, and a
Lieut.. Colonel wounded, besides others killed
; ard wounded, who were immediately cared
! for by the Rabeis-placed in wagons " arnbu.
iancrs.
From the officer who brings This account. ve
learn that there were four Generals with tais
body of R-hc.,-Grnerals Stuart Wade aannn.
toy, Fi.zhugh Lee. aud another whose name ha
did not learn. 1t was said among them that
they hal, on the day before, had Goa siderabl.
Ggit al DumiIies. where they had bern repuised
BY i::fantry, in their effort to get possession OF
our stores IN and around that village
They brought away no prisoners ON their re-
treat or refinement from that enterpr!z. and
The br:icf among our men in their hands was
that they were woreted In the affair After
ing AZ the ford, oar carbineers rallied aad
save them another charge before retreating 10
tl' If camp. The rebels probably did no: ;,,lIov
;tir;, t:.ers they carried on nothing from n.
They stripped Our dead, however, of their
cloth-s, gloves, DC.
ThC next firing was in the immediate, ririn
ity OF Fairfax Cont House, on Sunday nigh,
A portion of the Rebel force went of in tn a,
d:rectiuf, but being received with four roands
of sheii and some rlusketry, speedily retraat.d
10 their main body. They Marched all night
Sunday night, and halted on Monday morning
at Chautiily Church for five hours While
thr:r, their pickets ri "Fryins-pan"-a mile
ard a half of--were attacked and driven i'm by
MAJOR Taggarr, OF I'd Pennsylvania cavalry.
On finding The force ne had TO deal with. hs
nowayer retired.
They left Chantiily Church at noon on Mon.
day, going mp The Little River turnpike in the
direction of Aide. This is the last thai WAS
seen OF them. They had about eighty prisoners
M all, including cii2rns, strag glers, teamsters
ard The squad Of thirty We mentioned above.
Ire leaving Chantiiy, they paroied the sHH- .
Ct =, the three wounded priyates and Tt shy.
de-, ~ no, being in driict.iO nortuis from wound
in his thigh, dick there few hours afterwards
Gen. Stuart took occasion TO compliment Lieut.
Leach highly Tor the great galisatry of his tnree
distinct charges, made with not more than 2S
men uron u hole Rebel regiment, in order to
ai:urd our main body an opportunity to get
back across the ford. In the last he fell dead
his cody being pierced by three balls.
The rebels carried nothing OH with them
except the eighty prisoners and the clothing
they had plundered OF our dead-no: even
visbiy-;he stores from the few suffers wagons
they tell in with.
Major " hite-behayed with the greatrs. kind.
less TO them throughout the whole forty five
miles march 10 CL..hrilly.