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HAMPTON; -AJTJL Unexpected fe ten Near Coggin's Point, on t?e < Biver, I?ss- than five miles east o Point and opposite"to Westover, large herd of cattle belonging t Army of the Potomac. From mation obtained by trusty ? Hampton ascertained the exact tion of these beeves and the di; lion of the Federal troops in tl .ci ni ty, and decided that he wouk tar? the herd. To accomplish t would be necessary to make an i sion in the Tear of the Federal . and to within almost rifle shot of Point. Now City Point was the j -quarters and base of the Army o Potomac. Here Gen. Grant an miBtary family were "at home visitors, bufe did not look for ? from ~ Hampton. It was suppose be as safe as Washington. The people st Boston would have bee more surprised by a raid made to ry away Ply mouth Kock than wa* 'Federal army by the rnmmagin their larder, under the very nos headquarters. It was no wonder their nerves were badly shaken, this they certainly were. The u: peeled had happened to them. On the morning of Septem bei Hampton mov ed ont upon* the exp >tion from; his x>08ition sou th of Pet burg. ' He took with him W. H Lee's division, Bosser'sand Deari brigades, and 100 men from Youi and Dunov?ritis brigades. . Proceec southeasterly down, the west sid Bowanty Creek on a swift maret bivouacked quietly for the nigh Wilkinson's Biidge, and making early start: next morning and beal li nearly: north'ireaohed during the book's . Bridge, on : the Bla?kw? Biver* ' This detour brought him roi the left : Sank c? the Federals, nee -due south of Coggin's Point, and o .about ten miles from where he intern *to break throtigh their picket guar The bridge at this point had been -*troyed, as he was aware, and he lected the place for crossing the ri' for this reason, as he would not looked for from that direction. . ?Ii few hours a temporary bridge was' cc ?? -structed by tlae engineers, theron meantime rested and fed, and by mi night, the ?r?sr was crossed andt mareil r?sw??d. North of the B lac water about aline miles, near Sycarot Church, was the largest detachme ?cf th^enemy nearest to the herd .cattle, which was about two miles fi ?h?}?^^ Of tl peint were smaller bodies of Federal Sb Hampton determined to attack t! largest force, first and scatter ife, ai head of the smaller detachments, th preventing concentration. To Boss was accordingly assigned the cen ti -attack, after accomplishing which 1 was to proceed: to appropriate and car -awaythe prospective beefsteaks. 3 W. H. F. Lee's division was entroste the task ... driving away the force i the left and holding the roads leadic from City Point from which inte ference was^ to be expected. Dearin was to place his brigade on the rigl of Sycamore Church, and when h heard the firing there was to dash int and demolish a post about three mile from Fort Powhatan, on the Jame Biver, and hold the roads leading't the fort to prevent attack from tba .quarter. At 5 o'clock a. in. Bosser attacked The videttes were driven in, but th . main body, a regiment, the 1st Distric of Columbia cavalry, rallied benin? barricades ?in very good style. How ever, Bosser lost" no time, but mad short work of them, annihilating th regiment, ail not killed, wounded o captured making off in every direction spreading consternation thronghou the neighborhood and exaggerated ac counts of the numbers of the raiders As soon as W. E. F. Lee's and Dear ing's people heard the firing they com meneed their part of the programme dispersing or riding down everything they met. They then held the roads as directed, thus preventing assistance beiDg sent to the central post, anc drove away or took all the courier whom they could lay hands on. Bos ser sent forward a detachment to se cure the cattle, which they quickly did, overpowering the guard of 12C men and the herdsmen. Many horses were also taken, eleven wagons, three flags, and the beeves amounting to 2, 468. Three camps were burned, a considerable quantity of valuable stores and blankets carried off and more destroyed. All this was no easy matter, but it was thoroughly done, in a business-like manner." without undue haste, yet without. Joss of time. Sverything had been wc!! arranged beforehand .ind was carried out with out a mistake. The troopers became for the occasion amateur cowboys, and good ones, too. The cavalry, the army's maid-of-all-work. Ailing the gaps in the military household, were one day storming a battery through abatis and brush; on another '.?rivina: oxen. The Federal herder? of th-? cattle proved very useful and served :?TTLE RAID. rise for Meade in Sep 1864. ? Courier. their new. masters as well, and appar ently as readily, as if these .had been their original employers. When the oxen would become troublesome, show ing an. inclination to stray into the .fields and make delay, the herders, cracking their long lashes, sounding like pistol shots, would quickly bring them back, though it must be con fessed a trooper always rode alongside with a handy weapon to insure loyalty. But everything ran smoothly and the sight would have gladdened the heart of a Highland chieftain of the olden time, bnt his best "lift" would have been insignificant compared to this. Such a mass of cattle kept together would have been unwieidly, perhaps impracticable, to manage, but hy breaking them up into detachments, with intervals between each, this dif ficulty was avoided. Completely successful in executing his plans, Hampton commenced to withdraw by 3 o'clock a. m. While all this was going on in most cheerful manner for the raiders the greatest consternation and bewilder ment were prevailing at Federal head quarters. By prearrangement with Lee at the hour at which Hampton at tacked a demonstration to distract at tention was made along a part of the line of the army, the infantry driving the enemy's piokets into the fortifica tions west of the Jerusalem plank' road, and bodies of troops were moved about as if for a general attack. At the same time Butler, with his cavalry division, began to make himself very disagreeable to the troops in his vicin ity. It seemed from all this as if Gen. Lee was going on tne warpath in earnest and that Hampton's cavalry raid was only intended to distract at tention from this, whilst, in fact, just the reverse was trr.e. So Federal headquarters made the wires hot with telegrams and couriers were seht galloping for dear life with dispatches. Meade's "household troops" were kept very bnsy that day. Gen. Grant was temporarily absent at Harper's Ferry consulting with Sheri dan, then in the Shenandoah Talley, bnt he had a very "unpleasant quarter of an hour," and several of them, on' receipt of excited telegrams from Meade and from his chief of staff, Humphreys. And poor Kautz, such of his cavalry as had been met by Hampton having been 'demolished and sent scurrying in all directions, was sadly shattered in nerves and worrying unlucky Meade wjth messages and queries, in the replies to which one can almost fan cy he hears the General swearing. Many of these telegrams and dispatches are preserved in the published records of the war office. They are entertaining reading even at this 'late day, for, being sent on the spur of the moment, amidst all the ex citement and exasperation, when there was no time to weigh words, they ex hibit the true state of mind of the. senders. Like spoken words stored hot in a phonograph and now released, they seem very different from official dispatches prepared careful ly-after all the hurly-burly is past and blood is cooj. Meade evidently believed Lee was advancing in force, and was much .worried at the absence of Grant at such a trying rime, involving so great responsibility. Kautz sends a mes sage that he has information Hamp ton's force is 14,000 (!) strong. Sharpe, deputy provost marshal, says it is Hampton's entire cavalry corps. Trusty citizens report an immense force. Meade estimates-6,090. Hum phreys, chief of staff, informs Kautz that he can reinforce him with a di vision of infantry and a battery of artillery, but by that time the bird is flown. Sharpe and the rest fear the capture and destruction of all the immense stores at and around City Point and put their heads to gether to arrange to have gunboats rushed up to cover City Point with artillery. The alarm really became almost pathetic. But Hampton pursued the even tenor of his way. Having procured nice beefsteaks at a convenient market without the trouble of payment, he in tended to take them safely home to cook. He retired towards the Black water River, and before reaching the stream had reunited all the portions of his command, and then quietly crossed. Rosser was sent forward from there to hold the Jerusalem plank road at a point about thirteen miles south of Petersburg and east of the Weldon Railroad. Here he was at tacked by Gregg and Kautz with their cavalry, but easily repelled them. So he held the road, and the cattle were sent two milf? in the rear to the =outb: and wo:e safely got across thc Nottaway River, at Freeman's Tord, and all brough; "home.*' When Hampton had made sure that the cat tle and other spoils were safely out of reach of recapture. h-> turned his at tention to .'ratting oil' a L'oodly portion :?f the Federal cavalry, but by the time he had made disposition? to get in their rear for this purpose found they had retreated, a plan was, therefore, abandon weary, but jolly, his men retu the bivouac on Rowanty Creek night, and for many a day afte there were plenty of sardin< pther canned foods, pickles, an things esteemed luxuries by p lows, who had eaten nothing bu and flour, and too littleof th months past. These were pic by the men in the burned cam regularly captured property turned over to the proper authi They had marched one hundrec in three days. The prisoners ca amounted to 304, and Ham losses to 10 killed, 57 wounded missing. In writing to G-en. Grant aft affair is over and the beeves i cably lost, Meade is evidently very much disconcerted. He hi covered by that time, that it wa a cattle raid, and not part of a gt attack, and gives the best exci can think of for the loss, with in his voice. He attributes Ham] success and safe withdrawal t force, being 6,000 men, and he his own troops were only 3,000 ca and 3,000 infantry available, t fact, to arrive at this estimate of for the Confederates he has use multiple two. The estimates gr and drolly varied, from Kautz !. (!;) according to Major Yan Rens 5,000; Humphreys says three bri? of cavalry; Sharpe the whole ca' corps, and so on. Grant in a dist to Meade calls the captures "a haul," and so they were. Those ' beeves were a Godsend to the a "Hampton's steaks," as they termed, and thriftly used, las tee many a week. They were fine 1 oxen. It is amusing to discover now, i the tell-tale dispatches preserved, nervous during the rest of the < paign the troops were who gua: the lines near City Point, especi in the vicinity of Sycamore Chu where Hampton had broken throi They were always hearing stra .noises at night, suggested by for unpleasant experiences. Someti it would be phantom bridge built spanning the Blackwater: at otl the tramp in the dark of ghostly hoi and the clatter of sabres. Altoget they had a very trying time of it, ] children in bed in the dark, and tl officers were greatly disgusted by sc prompt retreats of their men fi imaginary onslaughts, and were tl betrayed into using naughty words On Gen. Hampton's return to quarters he received a note from G Lee, in which he writes: 1 lI have received your report of 1 result of your operations, and beg express my high appreciation of f skill and boldness you have displaj and my gratification at your handso and valuable success. You will pie: convey to the officers and men of y( .command my . thank for the coura and energy with which they have e: cuted your orders, by which they ha added another to thc list of importa services rendered by the cavalry di iog the present campaign." The information about the herd beeves, upon which the expedition f its capture was arranged, was o tained from Sergt. Shadbourne, the Jeff Davis Legion, a scout. I accompanied Rosser's leading ref ment as guide, and was foremost the attack. Sergt. Hogan, in chan of Butler's scouts, was also with tl expedition, and did excellent servie 'One scout was killed and three wouni ed in the fighting. The scouts of tl army did not constitute a distinct o ganization, but suitable men, volui teering for this duty, were detaile from the different commands. Th pos i ti OD required not only cool nos; conrage, ?zeal and intelligence, bv special faculties' born in some fe men. 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