Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-05-18
MOSBY'S RAID NEAR DUF-
FIELDS STATION.

guerrilla chlet or lDe famous ralO6
10 L)udoun county TO remind Mr.,
CrOgan ia story, and the strry Ia
always worth listening 70. A few
nights ago Mr. Crogan, says the
New York San, was asked by one
OF his fIieDds.
Did Mostly ever take any oi
the pluLder lbat was captured In
those ralds!|
NO" hprrpIIrd promptly, "he
J never took "a cent OF il. | remem.
Der one occasion when We made q
raid Oh a railroad train aud cap.
tnIed $l50,000. The money was
| divided among the men, share and
share al kr, but Mosby did not
take cent Of 4. Perhaps you
never he ird the story
OF course, no one bad ever heard
it in detail before, and Mr.. CrOgan,
after r, hecing to recall the incl.
dents, told it as follows:
This raid IS known throughout
the South as tue 'greenback raid
1t was near Duffields station, on
the Baltimore and Olio Rulrosd.
There were about sixty-five OF us,
with MoSOy himself in command.
We took it into Our heads to ditch
a tram, thinking that we'd hnd
one OF Yankees going to the front.
We hadA'l the slightest idea what
kind ofluck we were going to have
or what we would encounter.
We selected a spot where the
railroad ran between two steep
banks. There were two tracks
there, and we tore up one Of them.
| [ forget which. Presently train
came along on the other track and
passed us. To take no more
chances, We ut once tore up the
other track. Tnen wehid ourselves
at the top OF the embankment and
waited.
"PreSently train came along
| think 1t was moving westward
and we all got up AID watched it.
When 1t came to the spot where
| the rails wore torn. tha angina
qnietly turned over on her side
and fell against the embankment.
The whole thing was over in a few
seconds without q bit of noise OF
tuss. Nobody was hurt except
the fireman, who was killed, 1 be-
lieye. The cars all remaIne stand
ing.
"Olr men at once went throug b
the cars and ordered everybody
out. There were a great many i'm
migrants on the train, and we
had hard time explaining to
them that we wanted them to gel
ont of the cars. We noticed tive
men who seemed to be rather anx
i0us abolt their baggage. On'
had TIN tox and the other a car
pet bag. We relieved the gentle
men of their burden, and to Dol
great surprise we found the bai
and the box full of green6ackI
and treasury notes. IL turned on
that the two men were paymssteri
gong to the front with money 70
the army.
r "When We got this none,
Mosby put it in my charge and
tod me to getacrOss the river wit
!, il as fast as could. Two me
and myself imln' diateIy set ont fo
Loudoun )untv With the none.
, aud rode hard all night. | n
member distinctly that one Of tn
, horses slipped, and the rider wa
thrown to the ground, scattering th
greenbacks he carried right an
left. remember, too. that th'
other man and myself laughe
while nc picked up the money
and teaSed him.
The next morning NJ Isby ant
q the others caught ur with us, an
we all stopped under a tree I
q divide the money. The money.
believe. amounted to about Slo'
! 600. We weren't very enthusiai
y, TIC about it because we didn
r. know whether 1t was good tor an.
thing or not. The treasury mote
- were fresh from the mint, an
, some of them bore coupons. Td
Y men called ii money with tails
g it. Mosby insisted on the none
e being divided equally among Il
= men, bat he did not take u c'nt.
+ IL do not remember how mai
- prisoners We took. One Of d
l. men, j. Monroe HeiskelI, gave O
c :, of his money to a major whom 4
, had captured. Some Over-sealo'
It guerrilla had relieved the major
a his overcoat, his pocket book al
le all bis small change"
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