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Confederacy had very few men guarding the capital of Richmond and Brigadier General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick received approval from Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, to launch an ambitious cavalry raid against Richmond. Kilpatrick had a reputation for recklessness which
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Richmond prisoners commit arson and assassination. As to whether the papers were forgeries or not – Dahlgren's name was misspelled in them – Captain John McEntee of the
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Colonel Ulric Dahlgren to assist in the attack. Dahlgren had lost a leg after being wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg and was eager to return to action after his recovery.
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near Dover Mills but were unable to cross due to high water from recent rains. Dahlgren redirected his troops to attack
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as the authority behind the plan to have the freed
Richmond prisoners commit arson and assassination. Captain John McEntee of the Bureau of Military Intelligence, who accompanied Dahlgren on the raid, told General
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depot in Richmond. Dahlgren's wooden leg was displayed in a store window and his finger was cut off to remove a ring. These reports of the mistreatment of Dahlgren's corpse inflamed Northern public opinion.
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used her connections in Richmond to secretly exhume his remains and reinter them at a farm 10 miles outside of Richmond to prevent further desecration of his body. Dahlgren was eventually interred at
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241:. Beale instructed that they be delivered to the Confederate command in Richmond immediately. Pollard arrived in Richmond at noon on March 4 and delivered the papers to General
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exchanges of prisoners with the North. It was estimated that 1,500 Union soldiers were dying each month in Confederate prisons.
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