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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
says: Custer received information that Early was just ahead of him with about one hundred and fifty men. Lieutenant-Colonel Whitaker was immediately ordered to advance as rapidly as possible, with detachments from the First Connecticut and Sec, however, for ten miles further, but night coming on the hero of the Valley, by the merest accident, escaped. Colonel Whitaker kept the main road to Richmond and struck the Fredericksburg railroad near Kilby's station, and then followed it up w his face. The Second New York, Colonel Fitzhugh, was thrown out toward the Brook pike, and the First Connecticut, Colonel Whitaker, was moved down the railroad. During the day, the Second drove the enemy's line back upon the reserve, and in turn was forced to retire, with the loss of one man, named James Swateman, killed, and three wounded. Whitaker with the First Connecticut, not being pressed on his front, obtained permission to go out on a reconnaissance. He pressed forward for four