. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . moral effect was considerable,as shown by the Confederate correspondence since published. The Stoneman raid was followed in February, 1864, bythe famous raid of General Judson Ivilpatrick. having asits objective the taking of the city of Richmond and the lib-eration of the Union prisoners confined therein. GeneralMeade assisted the raid by demonstrations against Lees leftand by sending Custer on a minor raid into Albemarle Mas supposed, at the time, that Richmond Mas compara-tively defenseless, and that Kilpatricks force
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . moral effect was considerable,as shown by the Confederate correspondence since published. The Stoneman raid was followed in February, 1864, bythe famous raid of General Judson Ivilpatrick. having asits objective the taking of the city of Richmond and the lib-eration of the Union prisoners confined therein. GeneralMeade assisted the raid by demonstrations against Lees leftand by sending Custer on a minor raid into Albemarle Mas supposed, at the time, that Richmond Mas compara-tively defenseless, and that Kilpatricks force might take thecity before reenforcements from either Petersburg or Leesarmy on the Rapidan could reach it. Kilpatricks force consisted of nearly four thousand Spotsylvania, about five hundred men under Colonel EricDahlgren Mere detached for the purpose of crossing the JamesRiver, and, after liberating the Union prisoners at Belle Isle,attacking Richmond from the south. Dahlgrens little command destroyed considerable [122] m -_j~ V ,..!*£ ^sSl// fm. •* :> . COPYRIGHT. 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. TROOPERS OF THE FIRST MASSACHUSETTS JUST AFTER THEIR ATTEMPT TO RAID RICHMOND IN 1804
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