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from the danger that presented itself, but ran, and with intrepid force, toward us. They charged the steep ascent, struck down the commander of a North Carolina regiment, and only desisted when the fire from our guns repelled them.
Stuart withdrew from the ridge.
He had extricated himself in safety, and what would have been stigmatized as his folly, had we been routed, became a proof of his genius and heroic courage.
The object of the Bristoe campaign was accomplished as far as such objects are generally accomplished, but, on the 18th of October, Stuart was at Buckland, with Kilpatrick in front of him. A device suggested by Fitzhugh Lee proved successful.
Stuart withdrew and Kilpatrick followed him hopefully, but Fitzhugh Lee had taken a position which threw him in Kilpatrick's rear.
Upon an agreed signal, Stuart turned on Kilpatrick in front and Lee struck his rear, and a rout ensued in which Davies' brigade bore the brunt.
It ran, and the race extended over five miles. Custer, however, saved his artillery and crossed Broad Run in safety.
On the 28th of February following, Custer made a brilliant, and in the main successful, foray from Madison Court House into Charlottesville, with about fifteen hundred cavalry.
Near Charlottesville were four battalions of artillery, resting in fond security in winter quarters.
The guns were all saved but horses were taken, and some of the quarters were burned, with the loss of clothing and blankets.
Kilpatrick was moving on Richmond with about thirty-five hundred cavalry.
Colonel Ulric Dahlgren and about four hundred and fifty men were pushed rapidly toward the Virginia Central Railroad, which they struck at Frederick's Hall, where they captured eight officers who were sitting on a court martial, and moved toward the James River.
Thence they moved down on the north side of the James to Richmond, where they attacked the outer entrenchments.
Hampton attacked Kilpatrick's Camp and drove him from it, compelling his return to Fredericksburg.
Colonel Dahlgren made a wide
Review of Reviews. New York. 1912.
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