Enemy's advance up the Pamunkey proved
not to be their main column, but a raiding party, about a brigade;
probably an offshoot. After burning a tank and the trestle bridge
over creek near Hanover Court-House they returned down the Pamunkey.
Please send party up to repair bridge. When we left there was an
advance of cavalry from
Cold Harbor
toward Mechanicsville. Was it of any importance?