The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-09
mosbv,s Greenhank Raid

| Charles f. Crogan, OF the Southern Society,
was lieutenant IN Mostys command during
the war, says the New York Sun. II only re-
! qulres reference to the old guerrilla chief or
/ 10 the famous raids in LOUdOn county to re-
( mind Mr.. Grogau Of a story, and the story is
always worth listening 10. A few nights ago
( MI Grogan was asked by one OF his friends
! Did AlOsbv ever take any of the plunder
/ that was captured in those raldss".
/ NO. he replied promptly, he never took
/ a cent OF it. l remember one occasion when
/ we MADE raid on railroad train and capt
urea slaOuOJ The money was divided among
( the men share and share alike, but Mosby did
| not take cent Of it. Perhaps you never
( heard the story
| o. course, no one had ever heard it in de
/ tan before, and Mr.. Grogan. after rejecting
/ to recall the incidents, told it as follows:
rms raid IS known throughout the south
/ as the 'GreenaCk Raid 1t was near Dufield
/ station, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
/ between Baltimore and Martinsburg. There
/ were about siXty-lve of US, with Mosby him
! sen IN command. We took it into our heads
! 70 dltcn train, thinking that we'd lind one
! IuIl OF Yankees going to the front We
! hadn't the slightest idea what kind Of luck
we were going TO have or what we would en-
| We selected a spot where the railroad ran
! between two steep banks. There we're two
/ tracks there and We tore up one of them.
| l forget which. Presently train came
| along on the other track and passed us.
| 10 take no more chances, we at once
] tore up the other track. Then we hid our
/ selves at the top Of the embankment and
/ waited.
Presently a train came alcng-I think it
! was moving westward-and we all got up and
| watched IT, When it came to the spot where
! Jne rails were torn he engine quietly turned
over on her side and fell against the embank-
ment. The whole thing was over in few
seconds without bit of noise or fuss No
body was hurt. except the fireman, who
was killed, believe. The cars all remained
standing.
Our men at once went through the cars and
ordered everybody out. There were a great
many immigrants on the train, and we had
nara time explaining to them that we wanted
them TO get out of the cars We notice two
men who seemed to be rather anxious about
their baggage. One had tin box and the
other carpet bag. We relieved the gentle
men of their burden and to our great surprise
we found the bag and the box full of green
backs and treasury notes. 1t turned out that
the two men were paymasters going to the
front with money for the army.
w hen we got this money Mosby put it in
my charge and told me to get across the river
with 1t as fast as could. Two men and my
sell Immediately set out for Loudon county
with the money and rode hard all night, 1
remember distinctly that one of the horses
snpped, and the rider was thrown to the
ground scattering the greenbacks he carried
right and left. l remember, too, that the
other man and myself laughed while he picked
up the money, and leased him.
The next morning Mosby and the others
caught up with US, and we all stopped under
a tree to divide the money. The money, be-
lleNe amounted to about Sl5O,OJO We weren t
very enthusiastic about it. because we didn't
know whether IL was good for anything or
not. The treasury notes we're fresh from
the mint, and some of them tore coupons
The men called it money with tails to it,
Mosby insisted on the money being divided
equally among the men, but he did not take
a cent
Il do not remember how many prisoners
we took. One of our men, J. Monroe Heisken,
gave $50 OF his money to a major whom he
had captured. Some oVer-zealous guerrilla
had relieved the major of his OvercOat, his
pocketbook and his small change"