Union Cavalry Advances

Monday, April 13, 1863

In an attempt to cut off Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Richmond Union Cavalry General George Stoneman began a movement around the left flank of the Confederate line. Stoneman's advance was impeded by severe rainstorms, and the cavalry was unable to cross the Rappahannock River for two weeks.¹

References:
¹George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 237.