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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
ad arrived the day before. The latter had started at the same time as himself, and had followed, more to the northward, along the South Anna, a parallel direction with his own. His route being the shortest, he reached the Aquia Creek Railway at Ashland, which neither Gregg at the north nor Kilpatrick at the south had expected to strike before the following morning, about six o'clock in the evening of the 3d. So that, arriving unexpectedly, he had a chance of intercepting a train of cars comintroyed, as also some of the cars, one or two locomotives, and a large quantity of provisions; the railroad-ties which had been wrenched off with the rails were formed into a pile and set on fire; while two small bridges, one on Stony Creek, near Ashland, the other on Machumps Creek, near Hanover, were burned. But these damages were of small importance: in order to adequately destroy the usefulness of the two lines of railway it would have been necessary to have burned the two bridges of the S