On August 22 through September 12, 1862, Confederate Gen. Albert G. Jenkins led 550 cavalrymen on a 500-mile raid from Salt Sulphur Springs, attacking Federal forces and destroying military stores. He captured and paroled 300 Union soldiers, killed or wounded 1,000 others, destroyed about 5,000 small arms, and seized funds from a U.S. paymaster. As Jenkins and his cavalrymen approached Ravenswood on September 4, 1862, the outnumbered garrison fled across the Ohio River, and Jenkins rested his command there most of the day. Henrietta Fitzhugh Barr, an ardent Confederate supporter, and her mother provided Jenkins and some of his men with food. About an hour before sunset, Jenkins forded the Ohio River, losing one man by drowning, raised the Confederate flag in Ohio, marched several miles into the state, captured some of the Union soldiers who had evacuated Ravenswood, briefly occupied Racine, recrossed the river, and ended the raid at Red House on the Kanawha River. After Union forces reoccupied Ravenswood, Barr and her mother became targets of Federal harassment as armed men repeatedly entered their house and demanded that they prepare food for them.