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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e best cavalry officers in the Yankee service. He will be remembered by our citizens as the commander of the expedition which made the raid around Richmond early in the month of May, 1863. It was during the strategic movements and fighting on the Rappahannock, which resulted so disastrously to Hooker, that a large force of cavalry crossed the Rapidan with the view of cutting off General Lee's army from his base of supplies at Richmond. Dividing into detachments, one under the command of Kilpatrick, (who has since been wounded in Georgia and retired from the service,) one under Wyndham, and one under Davis, they damaged the railroads to some extent and plundered the inhabitants heavily on their route. The damage was soon repaired, however, and the raid, so far as its main object was concerned, proved a complete failure. It was considered at the time the most remarkable affair of the war. For deliberate, prolonged planning, elaborate equipment and contemptible achievement; for the m