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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
edition which made the raid around Richmond early in the month of May, 1863. It was during the strategic movements and fighting on the Rappahannock, which resulted so disastrously to Hooker, that a large force of cavalry crossed the Rapidan with the view of cutting off General Lee's army from his base of supplies at Richmond. Dividing into detachments, one under the command of Kilpatrick, (who has since been wounded in Georgia and retired from the service,) one under Wyndham, and one under Davis, they damaged the railroads to some extent and plundered the inhabitants heavily on their route. The damage was soon repaired, however, and the raid, so far as its main object was concerned, proved a complete failure. It was considered at the time the most remarkable affair of the war. For deliberate, prolonged planning, elaborate equipment and contemptible achievement; for the magnitude of its promises and the poverty of its performances, it was without parallel. The affair created great
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
Robbery. --The hen-house of Thomas Hudgins, on Leigh street, near Glenn & Davis's brick yard, was entered on Sunday night and robbed of fifteen chickens. Yesterday morning the heads of seven of the chickens were found in the yard, and the supposition is, that the thieves, as fast as they took them from their roosts, wrung their necks off.
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
Ran away. --On the 30th of July, my negro man Hilliard. He is black, about 5 feet 6 inches high, has a small moustache, is at the present time broke out with camp itch, and has a pass from J C Maynard, major and quartermaster, signed by B R Lipscomb. I will pay $200 if caught in the State, or $500 if caught out, and delivered to Mr S N Davis & Co's jail, in Richmond, Va. R. R. Turner. au 2--10t*