Sheridan 's objectives for his raid were to destroy stretches of the Virginia Central Railroad , provide a diversion that would occupy Confederate cavalry from understanding Grant 's planned crossing of the James River , and to link up with the army of Maj. Gen . David Hunter at Charlottesville .
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