Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-01-06
Cavalry Fight in The Valley Ansusing
scenes.

scenes.
A correspondent Of the New York ''Tri-
bune," writes that paper, under date Of
December 23d, an account Of the recent
cavalry fighting attending Clusters unslc-
cessful reconnaissance. It's quite amusing.
The attack was made by the Confederates
at night, and many ludicrous scenes occur
red in the camp Of tt enemy. oeca~ioued
by the darkness The fight was at Lacey
spring. nine miles beyond Harrisonburg.
We quote from the letter.
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II finally came TO fight like That of the
Irishman every man ION his own hook. f"
4 rsalBri woufd capture, strip and rob .onc
Of our men, aad then take him right into
one of cur regiments as prisoner BY the
time they had exhibited the trophies, they
found themselves in the wrong camp, and
in turn yielded themselves prisoners. The
same lauchable mistakes were, in Same
eases, committed by our own men. One
rebel marched into Gen. Casters hcadiuar
tiers. and aske.' what regime Mt that was,
Gen Custer ordered him to take off that
blue overcoat," and handed him over q
prisoner.
"Halt-- where do you belong r would
usually precede any offensive dcmonstra-
ton. What followed depended wholly on
the answer Of the person addressed, Dr.
Adams was mounted on very heavy grey
at.ii;o. ~ort., x,ab L;,.x ,oro~, tbo r,,1
and although he thought himself in the
presence Of the Union column, he was
really among Rosser's men. 4 person;
wearing captains uniform, aocosted him
with, Where do yon belong" Surgeon
Of the Eighth New York" was the doctor
answer. .'Then d-n you, get off that
horse" said the rebel At the same in
slant he wheeled himself in front, aud the
doctor received blow from a sabre across
his back ard shoulders from behind, which
threw him off his balance; his cap fell off,
and the captain brought his sabre down up
on bis bare head, which ended all further
Consciousness for a time. When he came
to. rhe doctor found party of rebels stan :
ding over him; his pockets had, been turned
wrong side out, and he heard one of them
remark, 'sCrooks. the son of b--h hasn't
got watch "--emp hasis. on the s'got -
Crooks answer was, 's'Then taEs that d-n
poncho, and let's be eff /, was stripped
of. The Doctors horse had escaped down
the road, and was recovered an hour after
ward.
Hero came party and commanded a
soldier of the Eighth New York to Get
of that h. rse.'' But why do you wan, me
to get of? I belong to the Eighth 80
DO we' answered the rebel; ''but what
Eighth d. you belong tor they asked
'To the Eighth New York, Of course. -
"Then, d-n you! you are ia the wrong
company; we belong Q the Eighth Virgin
|aD-and hitting the Union soldier a
thwack over his head, 5000 obliged him TO
dismouut This was within not exceeding
fifteen or twenty reds from two squadrons
of the Fifteenth New York, which aceoun-
ted for the backwardness OF the cayalryman
to believe them rebs. ca coming to him.
self, he started off on quick run for the
Fifteenth New York the rebs firing dozen
shots at him as he ran, Witch fortuna ely.
did not take effect. He reached the rcgi
ment in safety, and this soon brought them
down with a dash, and the enemy put
out 1t was COW getting light, aud there
wa5 no longer any difficulty to discover
where and wh6thessaneiny were
O,:r totol less said to be thsrty Of
which all but two are wounded, mostly by
sabre cuts. One died il hospital to day
Dr.. Adams has quite severe seal p wound
but he suffers most from the effects of the
hruse aud the blow across bis back, which
was aggravated BY lac fall from bis horse.
He is doing we'll, and, as usual, is in ex-
cell Mt spirits.
The Who'll, column cane back 20 Wood
stoo, where they calnped Wednesday night,
the court house being tlrnad into hospital
aud all our wounded dressed The road
was very slspery fron the ice the severe
northwest gale which blew rendered it al
most impossible to travel and the intense
cold greatly aggravated the sufferings OF
the men. It was particularly severe on
the wounded.