| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| May 10, 1864 |
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| The Central Railroad Tapped -- our cavalry
After the raiders |
| Last night, about 7½ o'clock,
a body of the enemy's cavalry from Grant's army struck the {Virginia}
Central Railroad at Beaver Dam, in Hanover county, 36 miles
from Richmond. Their appearance was very sudden — the telegraph
operator sending a message that the enemy was near, and in ten minutes
afterwards that "they are here." There were due at the
station at that time two trains of commissary stores, which were
captured, and, with the locomotive
drawing them, destroyed. Gen. Lomax's brigade and some more of our
cavalry is following the raiders in quick pursuit. They did not come
around Lee's army, but started from Grant's left and passed by
Massaponax church on our right. The raid will not incommode Gen Lee in
the least, as far as provisions are concerned. |
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