...f the worst of all evils, the women and the helpless of the city waited complacent in their bitterness, knowing not what a day might bring forth. Late in February, it was learned that the Federal General Custer , with 1500 horse, had crossed the Rapidan on a feint to the west of the Confederate Army, while Kilpatrick, starting a day later, moved down on its opposite flank, with the ostensible purpose of ent...