Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-14
The Result of stOneman's Raid.


The result of the gallant expedition Of Gen.
Stoneman, is thus summed up by the cores
pendent of the N. Y. Times:
To sum up-Gen. Stoneman moved about
within the enemy's lines ut will for nine days.
with a force not exceeding 5000 men; disa-
bled every line of communication between the
army of the Rappahonnock and the rebel
capital-and the canal through which more
than one half OF their supplies are received
SO that, in the opinion of competent judges,
neither line, provided the rebels have every
facility for the work can be repaired in less
than four weeks; destroyed millions of dol
lars worth of commissary stores, and other
supplies; INSTRUCTED travel upon the main
pixies, by destroying all bridges over large
streams; gave the citizens of ten counties,
VIZ, Culpepper, Spottsylvania, Orange, Han
over, Heribo, Louisa, Goochland, Flouanna,
King William and New Kent an opportunity
to see for themselves that not only are the
Yankee soldiers confident and in good spirits,
but are really human beings and not inhuman
savages, as represented by the Union chival-
ry; captured hundreds of horses, and above
all met the one great objection made to
the emancipation proclamation, so far as the
counties visited are concerned, by letting the
cOOred population know that they were free,
and weakening the producing class in rebel
dom by the removal of hundreds of able-bod-
led men, and sowing the seed of demOraliza.
ton among the rest, so that the labOring class,
i'll fact as well as theory, becomes a danger
Gus element. All this has been accomplished
by the rad of Gen. Stoneman, with the loss,
probably, OF less than 100 men, all told-only
two Of whom were killed. As an offset to
this loss, our troops killed number of rebels,
and captured between one and two hundred
TIM prpprs Ar ,ro,,r
Tn tho conntias yisifaJ thnre were but f.w
,oboIs found at bo,,o ,voont tho ,ar,, ala ,,,d
tbn ,or,, 1n,nr In nina Gsvs, trayol ia
not see ftva6ln.bodied mon who were NOT
in somewhat ronnactnd with Tho armv Ns,r-
lv evcrv branch nf buei,ess i ot . stands,ilI
fIhe shelves in stores arn almost nvory,ybcrn
emntv. rho sLon NJ tbn ortiSan ;s abanInnad
AMI IN rnine INA non,,Ia rhn ara r., I,a s.,l,
rassivelv snb,oit to ali tbot or,arntas t.,,n,
Richmond withouf a murmur. thew arc FIR
the most n,rt sin,rlo n'indaJ AMI iJpnr,,+ -
all that is tronsn;ripg in tbo grSat tbnatro
.bont tham An intelIi,rort IorI,in nav i,
Columbio Iou,Jhnd hnar1iIy ,yhan foiJ ,hat
TTnion tronms occr,,ioJ Nov OrIoans-I Tatt
Davis would lot tbnm krnw yvoro smrb tho
fact. and conId not find man who world
admit th,t tbo conf,dor,r,, ha,l ,.,or boa,,
hpntpO SinUla ppuaUntnpnt EboSn npOnla
do nor even read the Rirbmond n.nars and
about all the information thew do Obtain ia
what is uassed ahout in tbo nr;n,;tive civic
from mouth to mouth, Bpfore this raid they
believed thar tho ITnior snIli.rs were anv.
thino bpt civilized heinos and wnre strirkcn
vith tnrror whom tlnir nnnro.ch ,y,s hnr.Ided
OF six Churches seen in ono dav in nnlv ono
hal tI,rn hoon rol;,,;,,ns sar,i|.os hoId ritI,;n
CIV, ,,onths OnnlIaIf a. IaoSt "a tl,o d,raI
lin hn,sns ara ,nn,,.,,,,iod and f,st rToinr, r.,
deEav p''N' g ''''7
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tbin,r ,l,ar nan ~, 70 s,,st,;, tbo ar,',, L,ay
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