t this present time."

The following report of Brigadier-General King will be read with
interest:

YORKTOWN, Virginia, May 7, 1863.

_To Major-General Halleck_:

Colonel Kilpatrick, with his regiment (the Harris Light
Cavalry) and the rest of the Twelfth Illinois, have just
arrived at Gloucester Point, opposite this post.

They burned the bridges over the Chickahominy, destroyed
three large trains of provisions in the rear of Lee's army,
drove in the Rebel pickets to within two miles of Richmond,
and have lost only one lieutenant and thirty men, having
captured and paroled upwards of three hundred prisoners.

Among the prisoners was an aid of General Winder, who was
captured with his escort far within the entrenchments
outside of Richmond.

The cavalry have marched nearly two hundred miles since the
third of May. They were inside of the fortifications of
Richmond on the fourth; burnt all the stores at Aylett's
Station, on the Mattapony, on the fifth; destroyed all the
ferries over the Pamunkey and Mattapony, and a large depot
of commissary stores near and above the Rappahannock, and
came here in good condition.

They deserve great credit for what they have done. It is one
of the finest feats of the war.

RUFUS KING,
_Brigadier-General Commanding Post_.

Another print contained the following remarks:

Two regiments of Stoneman's Cavalry, the Second New York (Harris Light
Cavalry) and the Twelfth Illinois, after accomplishing the duty assigned
them of cutting the railroads near Richmond, made their way through the
country to this place. The boldness and success of their movements
surpass any thing of the kind ever performed in this country.

Various opinions are entertained with regard to General Stoneman's
expedition as a whole, some believing it to have been a grand success,
and others a conspicuous failure. The former look only at what was
actually accomplished, the latter only at what they think might have
been done. While all admit that the destruction of property and the
severance of communications were a serious blow to the enemy, most
persons agree that the General made a mistake in dividing his command.
Had he kept his forces together he was amply sufficient to have broken
all railroad and telegraphic connection between Lee and Richmond at
least for a who