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that the raiders had succeeded in effecting their escape by crossing the Pamunkey at Piping Tree.
Subsequent information has satisfied us that this statement was erroneous, and that only a small portion of the enemy's forces crossed the Pamunkey in their retreat.
The main body, after passing Old Church, in Hanover County, moved down into New-Kent, on their way, doubtless, to Williamsburgh.
Yesterday afternoon, Colonel Bradley T. Johnson, with about forty of his Marylanders, assisted by a detachment of the Ninth Virginia cavalry, which had joined him, came up with their rear-guard, near Tunstall's Station, when a skirmish ensued, resulting in the capture of seventy of the raiders.
This is probably the last heavy pull that will be made upon them, as it is understood that the remainder of the party had pushed on beyond New-Kent Court-House.
Thus ends the great raid which was designed for the destruction of General Lee's communications and the liberation of the Yankee prisoners in Richmond.
The injury to the communications with the army of Northern Virginia can be repaired in three days, and, instead of releasing the prisoners already in our hands, they have added not less than two hundred and fifty to their numbers.
It is somewhat difficult to ascertain the exact loss of the raiders in killed and wounded.
It is thought that in the fights on Mick's and Green's farms they had seventeen killed, and it is known that they had not less than twenty wounded. In Hampton's night attack upon them, near Atlee's, he killed four or five and wounded as many more.
In the several engagements which occurred, they must have lost, at a low estimate, twenty-five in killed and seventy wounded.
Their loss in prisoners will reach two hundred and fifty.
Up to seven o'clock yesterday evening, one hundred and seventy had been booked at the Libby, and these did not include the seventy captured by Colonel Johnson in the neighborhood of Tunstall's.
What their net loss in horses will amount to cannot, of course, be estimated, as the number they stole in their line of march will go far to make up the number captured from them.
They did not lose less than five hundred in killed and captured.
Beside the horses, they lost a Napoleon gun, many saddles, carbines, sabres, pistols, blankets, etc. Altogether, the expedition was rather an expensive one to Kilpatrick's Government, taking into consideration the results accomplished.
We were in error as to the name of the officer who commanded this battalion in the recent fight with the enemy on Green's farm.
Captain John McAnerney, and not McIthaney, is his name.
He came to Virginia in the early part of the war with the Third Alabama regiment, and was wounded in the battles around Richmond.
His wound disabling him, he was appointed a clerk in the Post-Office Department.
On the day of the raid he assumed command of the battalion as senior Captain, Major Henly being sick.
In addition to the names already published by us, we have heard of the following wounded in the late fights: Of Henly's battalion--privates D. T. Carter, S. McLain, R. B. Green, and Gray Deswell.
Of the Armory battalion--Lieutenant Truehart, slightly in shoulder; private Jones, mortally; private Rees, badly in the neck.
Among the local troops, we understand our total loss to be: Killed, three; mortally wounded, two; wounded, twelve; missing, five.
The injury sustained by this road from the raiders is slight, and only such as to prevent the running of the trains for a few days.
In the neighborhood of the Chickahominy they destroyed the trestle-work over the Brook, and some fifteen feet of what is known as the dry trestling on the other side of the Chickahominy.
At Beaver Dam they tore up some hundred yards or more of track, and burnt one or two unimportant railroad buildings.
This is about the extent of the damage inflicted upon the road.
Some uneasiness has been expressed with reference to our artillery at Frederickshall, and apprehensions entertained that it sustained some damage from the raiders on Monday.
The fact that several of the artillery officers were captured by them excited these apprehensions.
We are glad to state, however, that not a single piece was injured, as the enemy were not at Frederickshall at all. They struck the railroad some three miles below that point.
The remains of Captain Albert Ellery, who fell in one of the fights on Tuesday night, were interred in Hollywood Cemetery.
They were followed to their last resting-place by the battalion of which he was a member, and Smith's battalion band.
Among the pall-bearers, we noticed Marshal Kane and Doctor Charles Magill.
The death of Dahlgren.
Richmond, March 5, 1864.
The most important blow which has yet been struck the daring raiders who attempted to enter this city on Tuesday last, was wielded by Lieutenant Pollard, of the Ninth Virginia cavalry, on Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, in the neighborhood of Walkertown, in King and Queen County.
Lieutenant Pollard, with the greater portion of his own company, had been watching the movements of the enemy all day on Wednesday, in King William, and ascertained that night that Dahlgren, with about two hundred of his deluded followers, had crossed the Mattapony at Aylett's. With his own men he crossed over and followed the retreating raiders.
On reaching the forks of the road, a few miles above Walkertown, Lieutenant Pollard learned that the enemy had taken the river road, leading to that place.
Leaving a few men to follow on after them, he quitted the main road with the larger portion of the force at his disposal, and by a circuitous route and forced march, he succeeded in throwing himself in front of the enemy and awaited his approach.
In the mean time, he had been joined by the home-guards of King and Queen 