. Young folk's history of the war for the union . towardStaunton and destroy the. railroad. Breckinridge hav-ing been called toward Eicli-mond to aid Lee, had weak-ened the Confederates, sothat when Hunter met themat Piedmont (June 5) he de-feated them badly, takingfifteen hundred prisonersand three guns. He was joined at Staunton by Crook andAverill, and with twenty thousand men marched toward Lynch-burg. But Lee sent troops there, and Hunter, finding theplace too strong to take, had to retreat. Fearful of being cutoff by the Confederates, he concluded to return through WestVirginia. He was a
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . towardStaunton and destroy the. railroad. Breckinridge hav-ing been called toward Eicli-mond to aid Lee, had weak-ened the Confederates, sothat when Hunter met themat Piedmont (June 5) he de-feated them badly, takingfifteen hundred prisonersand three guns. He was joined at Staunton by Crook andAverill, and with twenty thousand men marched toward Lynch-burg. But Lee sent troops there, and Hunter, finding theplace too strong to take, had to retreat. Fearful of being cutoff by the Confederates, he concluded to return through WestVirginia. He was almost out of provisions, and having to passthrough a country which had been nearly stripped of food, hismen suffered greatly, but he saved his army. This retreat wasan unfortunate one, for it left the Shenandoah Valley open tothe Confederates. How they improved their opportunity tocross the Potomac again Avill be shown hereafter. When the Army of the Potomac arrived before Spottsyl-vania. Grant sent Sheridan with a large force of cavalry to cut. Benjamin F. Butler. 444 QBANT AND LEE. [1864. the railroads between Lee and Eichmond. Sheridan movedfirst toward Fredericksburg to deceive the enemy, but soonturned around to the right of the Confederate army. Theroads were dry, and the long clouds of dust soon told Stuartwhat was going on, and he sent some cavalry after the Sheridan kept him off, and moving rapidly destroyed manymiles of railway, with locomotives and trains of cars. He alsorecaptured four hundred Union prisoners on their way to Rich-mond from the battle-field of the Wilderness. He then rodequickly on toward Richmond, arriving on the 11th of May at aplace called Yellow Tavern, a few miles north of that he was met by Stuart, who by hard riding had got be-tween him and Richmond. Sheridan attacked at once, andafter a hard fight defeated the Confederates and drove themfrom the field. Stuart fought with his usual reckless bravery,and in a desperate ch
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