| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| June 18, 1864 |
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| Raid on the Lynchburg and Charlottesville
Rail Road |
| News reached Richmond on
Sunday morning that a force of Yankee cavalry struck the Orange &
Alexandria Rail Road Saturday, at Arrington, twenty-four miles from
Lynchburg. The mail train received warning in time to reverse motion
and escape, but a quartermaster's train fell into the clutches of the
enemy and was, of course destroyed. No official information of this
raid was received but there seems to be no doubt of the truth of the
main fact. The raiders belonging to the cavalry which occupied
Staunton last week. We presume their next movement will be towards
Lynchburg. If our military authorities, says the Whig, are not under
the influence of some soporific they will so effectually strengthen
the garrison at Lynchburg as to render abortive any attempt the
Yankees may make to take possession of that important strategic point.
It may be that the step already taken to prevent that calamity will
prove sufficient. We hope so. |
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