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The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
a long trip, with a week's rations in haversacks, packed pork and hard bread in boxes, cartridge-boxes full of ammunition, and ca ons and limber boxes well packed, the enemy started out very confidently, and unless prevented would have done us an incalculable amount of injury. Greater than the mere pecuniary loss, would have been the moral effect of a successful cavalry raid within our lines. So much as to the object of the expedition. On the morning of the 16th a telegram from Gen Chilton informed Gen Stuart that a cavalry force of the enemy, 3,000 strong, was in motion, and cautioning him to look out for it at the river. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's brigade was upon the river, and that evening be got a report from Capt. Randolph, of the "Black Horse," confirming the telegram, and saying the enemy appeared in motion. Later the advance videttes appeared at Kelley's Ford, and also at Rappahannock bridge. Gen. Lee immediately sent down reinforcements to the companies already at thos