History may look upon Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick's Feb. 28-March 3, 1864 cavalry raid on Richmond as an embarrassment if not a fiasco.
But you might not have known that from what one observer described as "the rollicking, devil-may-care appearance of the retiring raiders" as the dusty, mud-covered column of nearly 3,000 troopers rode into the safety of the Union lines at Williamsburg on the evening of March 3.
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