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The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Federal raid. (search)
into the heart of our State. The only consolation left us to extract from the affair is that the raid makers succeeded in doing so little injury to our public works. Nor did they inflict much injury on private property. Their means of conveyance and time did not allow them to gratify their fondness for pillage to any great degree. Whether they have all gotten off or not we are not as yet informed. They came into Louisa and separated into two or more bodies. That one which came to Ashland, injuring the Central Road in its route, has certainly gone off rapidly to Gloucester Point, after only a skirmish at Tunstall's Station with the 44th Virginia. That division which started for Columbia, and was probably commanded by Stoneman himself, was in the region bordering on the canal as late as Tuesday noon.--What has become of them we have not yet learned. It was stated that General F. Lee had driven them from Columbia, and saved the aqueduct over the Rivanna. But if ever driven
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
some two thousand others were captured, and five batteries of field artillery. From this fact some idea may be formed of the character of the fight, and the extent of our triumph. It is stated that Gen. Lee regards it as one of the most satisfactory victories of the whole war. There is a report that Gen. Stuart had succeeded in destroying the pontoons of the enemy last night, thus cutting off their retreat. I sent you a letter yesterday, which, I presume, the capture of the train at Ashland prevented reaching you. I hope this note, hastily written, will be more fortunate. You will hear from me again to-morrow. It is believed that the fight is for the present ended, though there is tolerably heavy cannonading going on now at Fredericksburg. B. Accounts of the battles given by the wounded A number of our wounded at the late battles near Fredericksburg arrived in this city yesterday. They state that the fighting on Saturday and Sunday last was desperate. D. H. Hill's