A raid of Sheridan's cavalry.
A dispatch from Washington, dated the 24th, says that Sheridan's cavalry is off on a grand raid, the object of which cannot yet be stated. It also says:‘ The scouting party, consisting of detachments of the Eighth, Thirteenth and Seventeenth Illinois cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Clendinin, which started out from Fairfax on Tuesday, immediately moved to White Plains, where they divided into three separate columns, one moving toward Salem, another to Middleburg, and the other to Rectortown. A party of twenty-five of Mosby's men passed through Hopewell gap an hour in advance of Clendinin, not knowing, however, that a command of cavalry was after them.
’ Captain Corbet, of the Eighth Illinois cavalry, pushed rapidly forward with his detachment, and came upon the enemy, wounding one officer, Lieutenant Cogan, severely, and capturing two prisoners.--The Lieutenant's leg being broken, he could not be brought in, but he was paroled and left in a house by the roadside.
Major Frazier, who had charge of one of the columns, composed of men of the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Illinois cavalry, wounded one rebel officer and captured eight prisoners. This wounded officer is supposed to be Major Johnson, of the Sixth Virginia cavalry.
Each detachment had more or less skirmishing with small squads of guerrillas, but no larger force than fifty men was seen at any one time. The party safely returned to camp on Thursday evening, having been out three days, and brought with them quite a large quantity of captured rebel property and fifteen prisoners.
