. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . ts of a knight-errant in thepalmiest days of chivalry. He had under his command his own regiment,the Ira Harris light cavalry, and left the rendezvous at Thompsons CrossRoads early in the morning on Sunday, May 3d; reached Hungary, astation on the Fredericksburg railroad, about forty miles distant, and eightmiles from Richmond, at daylight on the morning of the 4th, and de-stroyed the depot, telegraph wires, and railroad track for several then passed over to the Brook turnpike; drove in t
. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . ts of a knight-errant in thepalmiest days of chivalry. He had under his command his own regiment,the Ira Harris light cavalry, and left the rendezvous at Thompsons CrossRoads early in the morning on Sunday, May 3d; reached Hungary, astation on the Fredericksburg railroad, about forty miles distant, and eightmiles from Richmond, at daylight on the morning of the 4th, and de-stroyed the depot, telegraph wires, and railroad track for several then passed over to the Brook turnpike; drove in the Rebel picketsdown the turnpike and the Brook; charged upon a moveablebattery, and forced it to retire within two miles of Richmond ; and cap-tured Lieutenant Brown, aide-de-camp to the Rebel General Winder,commander of the fortifications at Richmond, and eleven men, inside thefortifications, and narrowly capturing General Winder thus bearded the lion in his den, he turned eastward, and followedthe line of the York river railroad to the Meadow bridge, over the. EXPLOITS OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL DAVIS. 537 Chickaliominy, burned the bridge, and ran a train of cars into the then retired to Hanovertown, on the peninsula, crossed the Pamunkey,and destroyed the ferry just in time to check the advance of a pursuingcavalry force; burned a train of thirty wagons loaded with bacon for theRebel army; captured thirteen prisoners; and encamped for the nightfive miles from the river. At one oclock, a. m., of the fifth of May, heresumed his march—surprised a troop of three hundred Rebel cavalry, atAyletts, on the Mattapony river, captured two officers and thirty-threemen; burned fifty-six wagons, and a depot of Rebel stores containing up-wards of twenty thousand barrels of corn and wheat, large quantities ofclothing and commissary stores, and safely crossed the Mattapony, andagain destroyed the ferry, just in time to escape the advance of the Rebelcava
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