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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
us schemes. Kilpatrick's forces divided in the upper country. One portion of them, after having attempted to capture the artillery of General Lee's army at Frederick's Hall, and been driven off, came on direct, and made their appearance on the outskirts of the city, where they had an artillery duel with our batteries, without much damage to either side. The other, under Dahlgren, passed through Goochland, robbing and burning as they went. They approached the city in a dark night, on the Westham road, and within a few miles of town, were met, in a dark night, by the battalion of clerks, who fired not more than two or three volleys at them, when, as was to have been expected from professional house-burners and hen roost thieves, they faced to the right about and galloped off. General Bradley Johnson had already met a party of them, numbering about a thousand, with a small force near Old Church, in Hanover, and routed them effectually. --The next night, General Wade Hampton, who had