. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . urch a regimentof Federal cavalry was awaiting the assault. The cattlewere protected by a strong abatis, through which cavalrycould not pass, and a deliberate attack was required. Ac-cordingly the Seventh Virginia was dismounted and movedforward, while other regiments Avere sent around the obstruc-tion. The herders then broke down the fence of the corral,and tried by firing pistols to stampede the cattle, and thus getthem beyond Hamptons reach. But Hamptons cavalry Avereborn cowboys, and, heading off the frightened cattle, soonroun
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . urch a regimentof Federal cavalry was awaiting the assault. The cattlewere protected by a strong abatis, through which cavalrycould not pass, and a deliberate attack was required. Ac-cordingly the Seventh Virginia was dismounted and movedforward, while other regiments Avere sent around the obstruc-tion. The herders then broke down the fence of the corral,and tried by firing pistols to stampede the cattle, and thus getthem beyond Hamptons reach. But Hamptons cavalry Avereborn cowboys, and, heading off the frightened cattle, soonrounded them up, so that the expedition returned Avith twenty-five hundred cattle to Lees starving soldiers. On the 17th,General B. F. Butler informed General Grant that threebrigades of Hamptons cavalry turned our left and capturedabout two thousand cattle, and our telegraph constructionparty. Rosser returned to the Valley with his brigade, and onNovember 27th started on the New Creek raid, so calledfrom a village on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, about [1101. ^ MkA i4 BRIGADIER-GEN-ERAL JAMES ,
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