The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=tgn,2002163&n=1&type=place">Goochland</a> and Louisa.

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The Yankees in Goochland and Louisa.

Brief mention was made yesterday of Gen W. H. F. Lee's repulse of the cavalry detachment sent to operate on the James River Canal. We are still without any definite particulars of that affair. If street reports were worthy of belief, the tow-path of the canal was yesterday swarming with thousands of Yankees, coming down, with slow and deliberate advances, upon the devoted capital of the Confederacy. But the truth of the matter, so far as can be ascertained, is that the cavalry detachment which undertook this portion of the job, after being defeated by Lee, went into Goochland county, where they commenced a series of depredations upon the inhabitants, and doubtless carried on their operations in this respect quite extensively. This force has been estimated at some 1,200 men. It will been seen that Stoneman divided his command into detachments, and sent them in various directions to perform the work assigned them. The canal party, it is supposed, afterwards united with another force from Louisa, for our scouts reported yesterday that 4,000 or 5,000 were moving down the Deep Run road towards Hungary Station.

Rumors were numerous yesterday of their presence at various points on the Fredericksburg road; but Superintendent Rady experienced no difficulty in repairing the telegraph line on that route, and it was working well at a late hour last night.

The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. May 6, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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The Yankees in Goochland and Louisa.