The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-12-06

plunged my horse into q stream so as to throw the
pursuers on the trail. Stoughton went in after me
There was hill on the other bank. I galloped up
TO II and looked back tor distance OF several miles.
No one was pursuing Just as reached the top OF
the hill the sun burst out In all It's splendor George
slater was close by me, the other men following In
the rear. The beauty and grandeur OF the morning,
after our nights work, so Impressed me that
turned TO Slater, and, pontngto the rising sun, said
George, that Is to me ne sun Of Aus!crlilz, .,
forth from President Lincoln n characteristic re.
mark lie was notified that Brig. Gen. Stoughton
and over hundred head of fine horses had been
captured. 81 don't care about the brigadler," said
Lincoln " can make Plenty more, but the horses
dThat,n continued the Colonel, "may be said to
have been my beginning. A few dayslaicr Gen. Lee
sent me down my commission as major and au.
did was to capture Gen Wells, OF Vermont. twenty
1--WE Vermont cavalry were at n railroad station
guarding depot OF supplies, and determined to
cut them on from the army with which they were
connected and from which they were about mile
distant with body Of my men penetrated into
me woons IL their rear and got between them and
they saw me coming they supposed i was relief
force sent to the station In order TO let them rest
We rode on quietly until about hundred yards
away from the station, when we yelled and rushed
down on them. They were so surprised that they
d not mink o. lighting Gen Wells ellis was w accidentally
lunch, and 40 caught him. met him here few
weeks ago, and we chatted over old times.
me as being very funny" remarked Col. Mosby
laughing IA few men who got on the blind side 81
the provost marshal were permitted to have depots
inside the Union lines, where they sold supplies ant
there was one at the station. When we raised thai
yell he had been getting some molasses for Gus
iomer, and was so frightened that he ran away with
out turning tho tap on. lie did not come back fo
half an hour, and when he did the molasscs was al
over the store a foot deep Everything he ha,
brought there was covered with the syrup. neve
saw such dOefu looking man as he was on l0OkinJ
at the ruins. or course, we would have taken all hi
| had, anyhow.
Wour booty at times amounted to considerably
sums. Trains were constantly running from Wash
| ngton with rati0ns and other thngs for Mcclellan
| and Sherldan's armies. 1t was my business to TAX
them.
which had two paymasters on board with $3.50 L
pay the Federal troops, II was In Rreenbacks.
divided Y among my eighty men, who thus got owe
$4,000 apiece. At another time I captured two yer
| richly loaded wagons In suffers train. though
nj first OF burning them. hut finally concluded :
carry them OF. II was about twelve miles to pac
of safety in the mountains, and while on the way w
met the Second Massachusetts Cavalry by the meres
accident The California Cavalry Battalion, I
which Gen; Backns, your postmaster. belonged; we
OF 800 men, commanded by Col Thompson. Well,
was Obliged to leave the wagons behind, and tn
sner got them back again. After came here fror
China the sutler came to see me at the Palace, and
reminded him that he vet owed me for those wagon
and supplies that the Union troops stole from me.
captured wagon trains from some OF the suffers
repeatedly that Secretary Stanton put them In prso
AMI swore that they were In league with me TO dt
spoil the Government"
Col. Mostly said that he usually made an attac
with twenty or thirty men. 1T was my policy I
general engagement. I had scouts ont all the Tim
gathering general Information. There were man
men, WIN pretended 10 be Union men and had a,
cess to Washington, who apprlsed me NJ what wa
with their life that they would have continued 1gh
ing TIL dOOmsday, II necessary"