The Virginia in the Civil War Message Board

May 7, 1864 todd's tavern va

BY THE FREDERICKSBURG TRAIN:

FITZ LEE DRIVING THE ENEMY

We learn from a letter received by the Fredericksburg train last evening, that Fitz Lee engaged the enemy with his cavalry on Friday, and again on Saturday. In Saturday's fight, which took place at Todd's Tavern in Spotsylvania County, a few miles from the court house, he drove the enemy to Mitchell's Ford, punishing them severely. Two captains and forty-eight privates, captured by Wickham's brigade, were brought down on the train, most of them belonging to New York regiments.

The Sentinel

May 9, 1864

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