Show butlers movements south of richmond of thu the N Y Ii gierald erald CITY POINT vi va may I 1 I 1 tit the operations operation of our cavalry un till leithe dashem dashing general A E lZ kantz alltz if whose stal t I 1 idled you yon in lit mv illy dispatches or of lisi last week have boon been on 11 II the most extensive scale and resulted lesul ted in ill giedt tu to ill alic enemy and ei essential service to tile the union ca cause 0 late last evening some few of the wounded came in first who informed me ine that a pait of the division was losely closely following them and from tile the fill doimer in e v I 1 have bill been ella enabled bled to gather some incongruous reports of their proceedings cl ce wo edings lings 0 the order to advance was given on oil wednesday ednes day the ath dinst and tile dl di vinion having been pi ly organized and prepared prep ired tire the 1 older I der to march car cail 1 on it tire the morning cornin 11 of the ath irist was wa obeyed with the gnia greatest test alacrity colonel S 11 mix thaid new yolk cavalry Ci valry commanding 1 the first ati rade and colonel G P spear of f ill the eleventh pennsylvania Ca cavilia Cavi vilty liy tilt the second brigade 1 I ig ade rations suf sufficient fiCi it for tile contemplated trip provided is also ammunition for the car cai bines I 1 and mountain howitzers howit and forage Cl for fill tile it horses rs S on oil leakim leaving I 1 our entrenchments near known a as gettys station general kautz kantz took tile the straight load to suffolk and from chete thereto to andrews An And diews tew corners rhe greatest caution was used in this advance flankers kerS thrown out to give the earliest eai liest alarm or of tit an advancing I 1 foe but no opposition was va met mat and befonti dright or of III alie ath instant ofir carll cavalry ry ica leachm clied windsor birdge finding no YAR rebel 1 force liere general Gol leral kantz 11 alltz pushed or on t 11 tile the left of isle of wight i coin t house diew a small rebel forc force was As coull ivied who fired a volley into oil our loops and addled client of tit alie eleventh pennsylvania Oava liy assistant militant adjutant Genf general lial to to colonel spear was badly wounded ile he made ill his s way however to foit pot t and was baroti brought lit liei hatwon pon tilt alio ste steamer antei curlew the alie tiet net day comp compney i ny A of tl alie le eh eleventh cavalry led the advance on oil tile alic second day the column in a body h left ft s blackwater lic lac kwater bridge and went to 0 Whit foid station on oil the Nol folk foll and pi 0 id the opposition met fir far biorn tire enemy was but slight find was tn mostly otly front front will hot d station oll forces proc proceeded eMed to littleton they folded tire I 1 N ottoway nottoway river an and continued their match maich on and through stony stolly creek bodge on the verdon and Peters petersburg burl railroad which w was rea reached elied on oil saturday night at this tin s place olace tit alie thit d new yot k cavalry en coindet countered ed a rebel force commanded by colonel tabb who 11 gave 0 tile bliem battle and ali our loss cons consisted isted of one lieuten tilt int killed and some eight or ten nien men wounded the however I 1 with a lo 10 loss equal to if lot MD e than our own this finished tile tho thad days wol k which was intermixed with tivit eliat second coloine Sp ails brigade was here detached or on tile next morning and pushed forwald to a station seven sevell miles from stony c reek creek towa toward I 1 d wel we lot don awill owing to the density of tini woods some of our men wei beio e dismounted to act as skirmish I 1 is A ahel force met illet conr troops and comm hnud to rite on ill hem having sli num berR tho enemy had tho advantage 0 of f tho the fi fight lit all and dhove it ove our men atom the woods 0 at this point however rvin f 01 aiom fl oin tile the fifth nia cavahey Civi liy who alho aho dismounted I 1 arrived ind and affet a 1 I sh it p debels were in t their I 1 till tuinen it di I 1 ven v e it and tile woods clear our los loss consisted ut of one man killed and eight 1 wounded having pui pursued the enemy adis a distance ot of three miles mile our troops returned and set fire to the station de sti eying SOTH two hundred thon thousand amrid collais woith of boik and a laige laie amount I 1 of giacin giai n A quantity of ill the latter our men appropriated tu to use for their cattle leaving leavitt the station spears brigade bi mot met the ad Y Y and district of cavalry some soine three miles tile the side of tile station engaging a heavy force foice of rebels under tibb tabb it lip appeals peats that ill the latter after mechin meeting our troops on tile idilio ad to ill his in s entrenchments our cavahey cavi cavilia liy dis mounted and char 1 ed the batten batteries es but hiving having no infantry to thein I 1 compelled to they did in good older the tit few wounded we had 11 gat her ed up tip most of tiler them bloing ahle to lido their own hoisea beim atins on oil a straight strai load and only 9 0 milea miles finni Peter burg burp general kautz turned highway and commenced tilt alie maich ch toward bowald city point where lie ile al ai rived last evenia eve nih tho ie insult S tilt a as gearas near as I 1 ean can ascertain flom the disjointed statements of the wounded men who cimo came in ill advance of the main colt column ittin is ii the destruction st or of ili an immense immen ta track of rail lold which will somewhat with exilin ex existing itin lebel a I 1 I 1 an ae in e 1 ts after traveling for foi six days ehaust m 1 all ajl the rati rations oll taken alon 11 gil gen kautz not bein beill able to subsist on tile lie enemy came to to tile the hase base to replenish forage was found plenty lint tile the country lie I 1 raided I 1 aided till bligh is entirely depleted declet d of provisions provi ion our ont lo 10 loss tit alie lalle laige force foice and extent of ti avd over ind fought was very li slit light tit alie entire till number anber as fir far as 1 can call he be acot a cot bained amounts to to but 45 in killed and wounded the won wounded tided have been F sent 1 I waid hii d by dr chas mccormick the efficient Al medical edical ii di lector to foi tress WhOle thoY will lie ile raica for by dr eli mcclellan actins acting medical director to old point your youl coll with wit the cavally caa bihy ihy corps will furnish finni sli the det details ils of tit alie expedition my statement is only such snell as I 1 could pick up tip from tile the wounded ded |