The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

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wards Richmond, and came within three miles of the city,
when, encouTitering a Confederate force, it was compelled
to withdraw, Dahlgren himself being killed, and a large
part of his force captured. Kilpatrick, meanwhile,
pressed onward to Spottsylvania Court-House, and thence
to Beaver Dam, near w Il ro the two lines of railway from
Richmond, those running to Gordonsville and Fredericksburg, cross. Here the railway was torn up, and the
telegraph line cut, and the cavalry pushed straight on
towards Richmond. They reached the outer line of
fortifications at a little past ten on the morning of the 1st
of March, about three and a half miles from the city.
These were fairly passed, and the second line, a mile
nearer, was reached, and a desultory fire was kept up for
POlme hours. Towards evening Kilpatrick withdrew, and
encamped six miles from the city. In the night an
arltillery attack was made upon the camp, and our troops
retired still farther, and on the following morning took
up their line of march down the Peninsula towards
W illiamsburg. Several miles of railway connection of
gre at importance to the enemy were interrupted, stores to
the value of several millions of dollars were destroyed,
and some hundreds of prisoners were captured, as the
result of this expedition.
In the early part of March, General Banks organized
an,expedition with all the available force of the army and
navy in his department, to move up the Red River as
far as Shreveport, where the rebels had large supplies,
and where it was intended that he should be joined by
General Steele, with the forces which he could collect in
Arkansas, when the combined armies would be powerful enough to sweep away all rebel opposition in that
part of the State, if not in Texas.
A force of about ten thousand men, under command of
General A. J. Smith, left Vicksburg on the 10th of
March in twenty transports, and, having joined the fleet,
proceeded up the Red River. This portion of the expedition met with a decided success in the capture of Fort
De Russey by storm, with but little loss, by which cal)