The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-05-21
What was Done by stonem ans Cav
alry Raid.

What was Done by stoneman's Cav
airy Raid.
Summary by Correspondent Of the New York Times,
who accompanied General stonemnnJ
General Stoneman moved about with
in the enemy's lines at will for nine
days, with force not exceeding 5000
men--disabled every line Of communi-
cation between the Army Of the Rap.
pshannock and the rebel Capital--und
the canal through which more than
one. half Of their supplies we're receiv
ed-so that, ia the opinion Of compe-
tent judges, neither line, provided the
rebels have every facility for the work
can be repaired in less than four
weeks; destroy ed millions Of dollars
worth of commissary stores and other
supplies; Obstructed travel on all the
main pixies by destroying all the bridg
es over the largo streams; gave the
citizens of ten counties, viz, Culpep-
| per, Spottsylvania, Orange, Hanover,
Henrico, Louisa, Goochland, Fluvan-
ma, King William and New Kent, an
opportunity to see for themselves that
not only are the Yankee soldiers con-
fident and in good spirits, but are
really human beings, and not inhu.
man savages, as represented BY the
Richmond chivalry; captured hundreds
Of horses, and above all, met tho one
great objection made to the Emanci.
patton Proclamation, SO far as the
counties visited are concerned, by let.
ting the colored population know they
are free, and weakening the producing
class in rebsldom by the removal Of
hundreds of able-bodied men, and sow-
ing the seed of decentralization among
the rest, SO that the laboring class
in fact as we'll as theory, becomes q
dangerous element. All this has beer
accomplished by General Stoncmau
with the loss, probably, of less than
100 men, all told-only two of whom
we're killed. As an offset to this loss
our troops killed a number of rebels
and captured between one and two
hundred prisoners. 1."s. Be- .-E'st.
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MORE ABOUT THE CAVALRY RAID.
Colonel Fitzpatrick, with the Harris
Light Cavalry, $50 men, was detached
from the main force, and striking the
Fredericksburg and Virginia Central
Railroads at their junction, destroyed
roads, burned bridges over the South
Anna River, and made for Richmond
They encountered rebel battery ot
three guns on the route, but fanked
and passed it. This is the force thai
confounded the rebels in their, Capital
They rode within one and half mile,
of Richmond, in full view of the city
and inside the third line Of fortifca
.iODs. Here they captured a rebel lieu
tenant belonging to General Winder'
staff, pqroled him and borrowed hi
horse, They also planted the stars anC
stripes on the fort which they took, anC
it remained there during the ten o.
fifteen minutes they halted. From
here, to avoid Stuart's cavalry, whicl
was on the alert, they struck for Ay
let's Ford, on the Mattapony, captur.
ing and burning several large depot
there, containing 100000 bushels o
corn aud quantities of rebel stores.
4 hy They, left Kelly's Ford without
days rations, but out of the capture,
railroad trains supplied themselves a
they went. On the way to Aylett'
Station'they charged upon a regimen
of rebel cavalry drawn up in line o
battle, on an adjacent PLATA. Bot
seemed eager for the combat; but, be
fore they met, it was obvious they wer
/ all Union troops 1.-The seeming foe wa
the 18th Illinois cavalry, part Of Gen
eral Davis com mnDd. They had at
tempted TO gain the Union lines by way
Of the Peninsula, but had met with {
rebel brigade at Tupstall's Station, OF
the West Point and Richmond Rail
road, and were obliged to seek another
exit. This strange meeting was al
Queens Court House. From there
they passed on together, and reached
Gloucester Point, opposite Yorktown,
on Saturday morning last.
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