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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankee Cavalry foray. (search)
The Yankee Cavalry foray. Beaver Dam, where the Yankees made a raid a day or two since, is forty miles from Richmond, and three miles from the line of Louisa county. Most of the buildings of the locality were used for railroad purposes, and except as a way station on the Central route. Beaver Dam has heretofore possessed no special importance. Within a circle of a few miles, however, reside many persons of wealth and influence, and it was apprehended that the enemy, had they come down in any force, would not have departed without indulging their usual propensity for robbery and pillage; but so far as we have been able to ascertain, this apprehension has not been realized. Mr. Duke, the telegraph operator at the Junction, took a hand car on Sunday evening, and proceeded up as near as possible to Beaver Dam Station, where he learned that the Yankees had taken their departure, after having done as much injury to the railroad as possible during the brief period of their visi