Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-03-05
Correspondence of Walton's Daily Journal.
FROM THE CAVALRY.
HEADoUARTERs DETACHMENT,
Dranesyille, Feb. Goth.


Mr. Editor:-It has been some time
since you have heard from me, but as |
now have an hours leasure | will improve
part of it in writing few lines for
your paper. We are in comfortable quar-
tiers and do very we'll only when we are
worked too hard, and that is about all
the time. We have to 60 on picket once
in three days, when we are not scouting
and that is 50 often that the men and
horses are about played out.
On the 9th inst we started on recon-
noisanco to the Blue Ridge, and arrived
in camp the roth, our horses having been
under the saddle four days and three
nights We visited Ashby's Gap, and the
battle-ground where Capt. Perkins was
killed last September, going by way of
Aldie, Middlebury and Upperville, and
returning by way or Snickerville and
Lecsburg On the afternoon of the 18th,
a heavy detail was made to accompany a
couple of detectives to arrest some citi-
zens near Leesburg 1t had been showing
since the morning of the 18th, and melt
ing about half as fast as it fell, and about
the time we started the snow storm turn
ed to rain, and when we got to Goose
Creek it was badly swollen, but we sue
ceeded in fording it, one man only get
; ting into the Creek. Il. Scott of Co. G
was thrown into the water by his horse
making q misstep and falling in such a
way that he was obliged to let 60 of the
horse. The water was not so deep but he
would have got out if the current had not
been SO swift, and he bundled up in his
overcoat and rubber coat, and with a
sword and pistol to load him down and
impede his movements Lieut. Pixley of
Co. B was the first to reach him, and to
him belongs the credit of saving mans
life. Scott was left at house near by in
my care, and by morning his clothes were
dried and he was ready to work or fight
as the case might require. The ladies at
the house where we stopped were the rank
est kind Of secesh, and in fact had child
named SeceSSia, but as they treated us so
well we colud have no hard feelings to-
wards them.
At half-past two in the morning part
Of the column came back to the ford the
other part, which was Co.'S and G, went
to Point of Rocks. The creek was so
high it was impossible to cross at this
point, and in the morning the detatch-
| ment went back to Leesburg and then
| moved up the creek to ford at Balls
/ Mills, seven miles from Leesburg, and
FIVE from the ford we had Just left, ma.
g king us ten miles travel when five would
5 have done Just as we'll if the officer in
Q command had known where he was go
: ing. At Balls Mills, the water was sc
deep that the smaller horses had to swim
: but we all got safely over and stopped al
!. the houses by the road and emptied thu
G water from our boots and warmed oul
: feet, for it was quite cold day.
c Seven miles from Goose Creek we came
a to Broad Run, ordinarily a small stream
G running parallel with the Creek, but nov
: OVERLOOKING its banks, aud so swift wa
the current it was impossible to cross
C 1t was here that Lieut.. Pixley was
r drowned. Too brave and generous to per
n nit man to go into danger ahead o
r him, he told the boys to wait until h
It got across and if he come out all RICH
= then to follow but he did not come out
d lie persisted within sight of his men bu
10 beyond their reach Second Lieut.. Chas
&C II. Pixley of CO. B was from Enosburg
1t Falls. He filled the office of Co. Ser
10 geant until short time since, when h
IS received his commission. A kind friend
rs a brave and true soldied, a generous, nc
'e blehearted man,.his company feel severed
his loss, while all who knew him mour
the loss Of so noble man. He wa
about % years of age. His body ha
)" been recovered and will! be sent to Vel
p" mont. Unwilling to sacrifice any MOI
lives, we went down the stream to til
. pike and then on to the camp, where
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