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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)
d twenty thousand stand of arms. It remains now to glance a moment at the operations of the column under Stoneman. As this was a powerful corps, numbering some ten thousand sabres, and as its movement was intended to precede by a fortnight the commencement of operations by the army, very important results were expected from it. But the cavalry was delayed a long time by the swollen condition of the upper Rappahannock, so that it did not cross till the time the infantry made the passage, April 29. Hooker then divided the command into two columns, sending one, under General Averill, to move to Louisa Courthouse, threaten Gordonsville, and engage the Confederate mounted force, while the other, under General Buford, should break up the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad, destroying its bridges, etc. The only mounted force the Confederates could oppose to these columns was a small brigade of two regiments under General W. H. F. Lee. Report of General R. E. Lee on the Battle of