September 4— Last night at midnight we left camp and started with Jones’ brigade of cavalry on a prospective raid on a Yankee cavalry encampment near the Hazel River, and in close proximity to the Yankee line. I think the objective point of the movement was to surprise the Yanks in their camp before daylight. But it was ascertained by some underground means that their infantry were camped dangerously near the cavalry camp, which circumstance rendered it most too perilous for our cavalry to venture an attack in the darkness, without assurance of success. Consequently the raid was abandoned, and we retired to camp to-day without bloodshed or Yankee prisoners.
Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.
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