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The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee cavalry raid. (search)
e Brook Turnpike, leading into Richmond, and commenced a series of depredations on private property, though their chief object seemed to be to steal horses, to replace their own, which had become much jaded. They took four horses and six negroes from Mr. John Stewart, and some from others in the neighborhood. Col. John B. Young, Commonwealth's Attorney for Henrico county, was visited by a strong detachment, surprising him while busily employed in the preparation of a legal document for Judge Gregory. They took from him three horses, but disturbed nothing else. It appears that the expedition divided into detached parties, for we hear of them at various places about the same time. We have been assured that less than 300 were engaged in the raid upon Ashland, while those who reconnoitered their camps at different points express the opinion that the entire command was from 1,500 to 2,000 strong. At all events, it would have been no very difficult task to have captured a consider