. History of the American Civil War . strongly in his front, not only covered therailroads and city, but completely neutralized his forces. On the 12th, Kautz, with his cavalry, started on an ex-Kautz cuts the Dan- pedition against the Danville Railroad, which ville Railroad. ^ ^^ ^ Q^fcQ Powhatan, and Chllk Stations, destroying them and the tracks, with large quan-tities of rolling stock. Thence he crossed to the South-side Road at Wilsons, Wellsville, and Black and Whites,treating it in like manner, and reaching City Point on the18th. Butlers army being confined at Bermuda Hundred,The confed
. History of the American Civil War . strongly in his front, not only covered therailroads and city, but completely neutralized his forces. On the 12th, Kautz, with his cavalry, started on an ex-Kautz cuts the Dan- pedition against the Danville Railroad, which ville Railroad. ^ ^^ ^ Q^fcQ Powhatan, and Chllk Stations, destroying them and the tracks, with large quan-tities of rolling stock. Thence he crossed to the South-side Road at Wilsons, Wellsville, and Black and Whites,treating it in like manner, and reaching City Point on the18th. Butlers army being confined at Bermuda Hundred,The confederate most of the re-enforcements from the Southarmy re-en oice. were now jjjQugJif; against the Potomac Ar-my. In addition to this, probably not less than 15,000men, under Breckinridge, arrived from the western part ofVirginia. The position of Bermuda Hundred being easy to de-fend, Grant, leaving only enough to secure what had beengained, took from it all available forces under W. F. Smith,and joined them to the Army of the THE CAMPAIGN OF GRANT. Chap. LXXXIL] ADVANCE TO COLD HARBOR. 385 Finding, as we have seen, that Lees position on the NorthGrant retires from Anna was very strong, Grant, by skillfully andthe North Anna, rapjc|]y handling his cavalry, masked his plans,and, on the night of the 26th, the 2d, 5th, and Gth Corpsretired silently to the north side of the river, moving byHanovertown, to turn Lees position by his right. Two divisions of cavalry under Sheridan, with the Gth and approaches Corps, led the advance, crossed the Pamun- coid AW. key jj.^ at Hanovertown after considerablefighting, and on the 28th the cavalry had a severe butsuccessful engagement at Hawes Shop. On the 29th and30th Grant advanced to the Hanover Court-house andCold Harbor Road. On the evening of the latter day theenemy attacked his left, but was repulsed. Meade imme-diately ordered an attack along the whole line, which re-sulted in driving the Confederates from a part of their in-tre
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