The sun., 1889-01-27

iedsrs,c. solder an&gf he fsaSas SG 3; %GiSy, sI.
Mosby's men were not recognized rs soldiers
tSon, by the I'm Union armies and whenever any t oi
while Sheridan was .uY IL WSt, tSo neisSborhood Of
Winchester that six of our men were found
to ss Ss Fl
Union soldiers. among whom we're seyera! ao on,
hang six of the oendo1s sas to SGsa pay Ter six Of
our men m who had been hung by sheriSdsn; S ,Sa ;ob
tnH drsSg to Tho Gnon Ros d @
2 picket and gagged him before he could syo
the alarm; and then took our s9nad OF nsgs prison
baHslnG SAOfS Inc men By Ss Sensns down sapllppss
snd '5ftasss 81 tss 6Sss 5Ssss bes sh? GRn ing
Union men's necks. As the victims stood
therO eossio wsoS C5 hG .Ssm mado to
sign which I do not understand. as nm not, a
member q ,hS order The tieH,GnMsnt ut Mnson IN
and he instantly ordered that that particular
man be spared and two priyatss De naageat n tbe s
nas ns s'Saa 81 the In as S tie
order was carried out. we did not hang quite
all tho party, hoyeySr, for two oi Them tSsv es,
were unioosed these two men made dash for
the bushes. and once they were twenty leet
ny far hs wer n9t sao could
not see them. and It was not policy @ to BRING Gns
the enemy down upon us by hiring our guns
or five OF them. and attached placards to their
bodies announcing that thSk 6 wSTs n t
that Cen Sheridan Issued orders that al OF
Mosby,,s men. were to be regarded as soldiers
This aneodote ied the way to various other
byis command. One OF them related to an
M Maryland. Hs had become obnoxious, to the
euerrillas, and Mosby detailed about fifty men
n G sasase hs hm %hssS aSsn 6S party 4
ifords we're i so occupied by Union, soldiers that
large enough to hold three men. It made one, one
sae R Sna then vS T e
was was so slow and the danger SO great that tho
Shoe perty would be m ana ebnrr ds
cided to make tho attempt with seyen men
and. therefore. when that number had bee! been
ih ina the t detachment @ to 60 back to Mosby. Mr.
Wo reached the MARYLAND side" de- he, he said i'd
Tchean had been Stationed as
Ing in a, school house. and their horses were
tethered to fence near by. We ,oyerpowercd
the sentry went into the school hoTSSs and d
not know who we were until we had relieved
them Of their arms and comnelled them TO sur
As they were not what we were after and as
seven Of US could not very we'll take as manyas
h en be bs 6ey hSm from
the school house for one hour. Then we picked
out seven Of their best horses and turned the
We. managed to get within sight Of the. town.
and then learned that tho Governor had gone
HIM So We about and
hack to Mosb had tick
hnt at II lat Rnnl n In lnI IN
by the ford ut that point but 1t was occupied
by Northern men. and we had to take to the
came aware of our presonee and % the ai1 farmers
turned out with the soldiers to capture us. We
were in the edge Of the woods. whore a lane led
way to another part Of the river. il was clear
that We were nearly surrounded; in fact, en-
That was our only avenue OF escape. and we
set out down 1t at brenkneck speed. yelling
like mad m With the a effect OF searng nearly every
shot our commander dead The commanders
and Ill spite Of our protestatio ions remained by
his brothers body There had been another
sse e Of SO nG1s
We escaped the farmers and the Northern sol;
diers until we reached @ the river; M There We had
In and get across as best we could. As our
horsss were parsieulary p, gSpod we all reached
came as aeross s detachment OF Mosbys t mem @ and
"6n our way south we heard that train was
lions Of greenbacks aboard for sheridan's
army. We made up R our minds to %I,, wreck that hat
lay aye entirely Within the Federal lines. and the
point whore we determined to tear UP tho
TRACKS was only ooa half half mile oI from de;
Northern soldiers on the other; We thought
[ exactly
moment We reached the spot However, an
other train was to follow. and We set to work
a a Shallow cut The passengers were consider
SSy seroas hurt at @ eHeT
man OF them d lar a. S IVA Vas possible With our
satchei in bis hand. One Of our men went up
Hello. there, drop that satchol"
"'N No. sirv exclaimed the German. am
and thS s2tehe for
Just Just ths ip1 man J. have been looking for now w.
Wy fhe German refused to drop IT.. and sud-
pg sd Il at hs anaE nna n
his rife A hall second more and he would have
shot him. and the sound Of his weapon might
ao%a u.s. Mosby himself 1p
and knocked the gun from his soldiers hands
and ordered him not to fire. Tho paymaster
was overpowered without tho crack Of a
weapon. and IA his bag we found 100000 in
greenbacks. The men who went into the bng-
gage car found $4,000. We took Us many of
the party prisoners as We, thought we could
convey. and Immediately left tho place. All
our. prisoners, however, escaped because we
could not look after them mp property ns The money i
among the boys in equal shares. .,o .,.
troops in big snow storm. In which two or
three regiments OF them surrounded twenty-
three OF US. We fought In spite of tho over
whelming numbers, and sixteen OF our men
were killed. | was wounded early in the COM
bat by blow from the butt end Of n rifle. and
was taken to Fort Warren. Boston whoro was
confined untll the end Of the war. a curious
coincidence OF this last skirmish OF mino was
that the very company that CAPTURED mo was
had stolen my horse. and its owner thus got
his animal back again"
An Alligator in a Tree.
AsToR, Fla, Jan. 26.-John Wilson. living
near here big cypress In tho swamp n
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