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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)
he magnificent railroad-bridge across that river. At the South-east, General W. H. F. Lee had made an unsuccessful attack, on the 10th of February, upon Gloucester Point on York River, and a few days later, on the 25th, he cannonaded the Federal ships in the Rappahannock, while his cousin, crossing that river some distance below Falmouth, surprised a Federal post and captured about one hundred prisoners at a place called Leedstown. Finally, in Northern Virginia, Captain McNeil, on the 16th of February captured a Federal convoy near Romney. On the 26th, General Jones, prior to his expedition along the Monongahela, made a bold move in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and, surprising two cavalry regiments which had been sent by Milroy for the purpose of checking his course, dispersed them near Strasburg, taking two hundred prisoners. A detachment of his brigade even pushed on as far as the Potomac, and, crossing the river in boats, captured about sixty Federals near Poolesville in Maryla