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The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The recent affair at Suffolk. (search)
d on the way to his army but about an hour before our men reached it. Leaving Frederick's Hall on Monday, they pushed on to Richmond a detachment of five hundred men under Colonel, Dahlgren, while General Kilpatrick with the main body moved upon Ashland, both parties scouting the country thoroughly and doing all possible damage. Col. Dahlgren was to move down to the right of Richmond, destroying the James River Canal, and then taking the river road, was to cross opposite and enter the city frok, but nothing has been heard of this one. Strong hopes are entertained that, with his usual determination, he has cut his way through with at least a part of his hundred and fifty men. Gen. Kilpatrick had advanced down the Brook pike from Ashland, having torn up the rails at that point, destroying the telegraph line, etc. At one station the operator succeeded in sending a dispatch to Richmond announcing that the Yankees were coming. Our troops reached the outer fortification early o