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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)
th, burnt the depot, cut down the telegraphic lines and tore up the rails; continuing his daring march, he forced his way through the outposts which surrounded the Confederate capital, passed between the redoubts which enveloped it sat intervals, and captured a considerable number of prisoners in sight of the city; then, leaving the enemy astounded at so much audacity, he crossed the Chickahominy near Meadow Bridge, destroyed the railway-bridge, quickly gained the banks of the Pamunkey at Hanovertown, and, being ferried over, succeeded at last in placing that river between himself and the enemy, who was pressing him closely. On the morning of the 5th, starting again for the north, he crossed the Mattapony, and reached the Rappahannock at the village of Tappahannock. From thence, in order to throw the detachments that had been pursuing him all the way from Richmond on the wrong scent, he suddenly turned once more southward; picked up on the way a squadron of the Twelfth Illinois; and