Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-08-05
Mosby, the Partisan Leader.
rR;cbmond Correspondence Philadelphia


On The streets of Richmond yesterday
Somebody has described Mos6y asa
handsome man in per.onsl' appearance.
bot he is nothing OF The sort. OF ord.
nav height. has build rs good enough. hut
hi. face Is very commonplace. aud h..
.liOht brown hair. worn udkeWpt. adds
mailing 10 it's aI,racIveness. Moshy's
features and expression would impress
vou as those OF man resolu'e and Gun
ming. no, cspieu>ly honest nor v'cI"usly
cruel and suspect that The stores 81
r. cr,eI,v he has been somewhat be.
lied.
nosspssIon of some tobacco ne Claims.
and I was sorry To hear hlm remark 'l'st
! ;, - al he has IN the world, for know
he will not get it, and he owes Tue In
Iop;,er fpr horse and divers other sTil'
Giles, taken from me by some OF his baud
las, summer. and Imagine our chance
for restitution 10 be small. In anoIhrr
sense il was pleasant 10 hear hIm fdm'
his poverty, fer # he told The ruth, II
shows that he Was grlevously swndied
a, the final division OF The sPohe on me
breaking up Of his command. and turlher
i, copIroyeTts the uncomfortable axiom
g. ncern!np honor among thieves.
When the LIE of John Singleton Ms
BIZ cones 10 be written, II Will show
succession of startling personal adventure
IUnsurDassed BY hose OF any partisan
chief on record. That Mosby was si'
ways hanging on The outskirts Of our ar.
mics, cutting o6 cor trains, capturing our
sGaggers, and harrsssIng us III every
possible way. the people generally know
hat thew do not know that he went 10
and out OF our camps at his own pleasure.
and was never once detected. IL 10 SAID
land sndobledly ruel that while Burn
side lay opposite fredericksburg IN The
winter of 1862. Mosby dined with h'm,
in the character of Union farmer rom
across the river, and gathered, with his
shrewd cunning from The general table
talk, much valuable Information, with
which he regained the Rebel lines with
out molestsl'on.
One of The best things told Of him oe.
c, rred that same winter and in the same
neighborhood. Burnside, ,ha, winter.
as literally badgerrd by Mosby' He
seemed ubiquitous, and at las, 1t becsms
dangerous TO go from camp at oil, as the
least ramble v as sure 10 result. in capture
bv Mosby. A, last Burnside became
wearied oui, and determined 10 capture
the partisan, and TO this end sent deisch.
mems of cavalry 10 scour the country
thoroughly. and bring him dead or alive.
One dsy, one detachment, led by sDeui'
ensn,. colonel, was going up the Dnnf''rs
road, when, from house III sight OF 'he
! Federal lines, a man emerged dressed IN
the uniform Of Federal captain, and al.
tended by one orderly dressed IN our cav
airy blue. At the gate were two horses
marked u. s., and furnished with our
regulation saddle and bride. and mount
ing, The captain rode up and sccosted the
colonel, who was still marching up the
road. The colonel Informed his new
companion that he was in search OF Ihs
- Mosbv, and asked if he had heard
any thing Of him.
The captain had heard and knew ,os
certainty that on hour before Mosby bad
been al Jones's, four miles up the road.
Visions of promotion and newspaper ps''
sgIsphs dancing before him. The colonel
ordered "lroi march" while the captain
with his orderly dashed across a field tn
farm house TO gel some milk, he said.
before returning to camp. irrIved m
jones', the colonel found that Mosby
had indeed been there, but also found
that he had departed in tile direction Of
Burnside's camps. Back the colonel
beat in haste, making inquiries every.
here, but finding no unce. Arrived a.
gain al the house from Which the comnu.
NEGATIVE captain had appeared. the 40.
nan accoslsd him, and this colloquy en-.
sued
Woman Kurnsl. who was that ere
Yank Gaping met ye hear as ye ~1
zwine toiber way
Colonel don't know his name. bu,
be belonged 10 Motsschuselu regimrnI.
Woman Yeas. well kneow sinS you
.Dd that sir vac john Mosby
Colonel H
And lie rode b.ck to camp ard -lt
noihing whatever about lis momics',
work. except 10 report lha, he bel rol
captured him. Some Of his men c,d.
hovsver. and that 'ioIy hn4'.d sbDut 40
army during 'hs rect ~ me war.
Many such thing. ~ his IRE ,oli Of
Mostly, and bic power for mischief ~.
so sensibly fell in the Valley las, sun.a,yr
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