Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-10
1t Would be Robbery Now.

Mr.. Charles f, Grogan, Of the South
ern Society, was lieutenant in Mosby' :
command during the war. 1t only re-
quires reference to the old guerilla
chief or to the famous raids in Loudoun
county to remindMrGrogan of a story,
and the story is always worth listening
tc. A few nights ago Mr.. Grogan was
asked by one Of his friends
did Mosby ever take any of the
plunder that was captured in those
raids p
"No, he replied promptly, he never
took cent of it. remember on one
occasion when he made raid on rail
road train and captured $4,000. The
money was divided among the men,
share and share alike, but Mosby did
rot take cent of it. Perhaps you
never heard the story
OF course no one had ever heard it in
detail before, and Mr. Grogan, after re-
hecting to recall the incident, told it as
| follows
The raid is known throughout the
South as the 'greenback raid 1t was
near Duflield station on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, between Baltimore
and Martinsburg. There were about
80 of us, with Mosby himself in COM
mard. We took it into our heads to
ditch train, thinking that we'd find
one full Of Yankees going to the front.
We hadn't the slightest idea what kind
of luck we were going TO have or WhG t
We would encounter.
''We selected spot where the rail-
road ran between two steep banks
tore up one of them. | forget which.
Presently train came along on the
other track aud passed Us, To take no
more chances, we at once tore up the
other track. Then we hid ourselves at
the top of the embankment and waited.
Presently q train came along-I
think it was moving westward-and we
all got up and watched it. When it
came to the spot where the rails were
torn up the engine quietly turned over
on her side and fell against the en-
bankment. The whole thing was over
in few seconds, without bit of noise
or fuss. Nobody was hurt except the
fireman, who was killed, I believe.
The cars all remained standing.
"0ur men at once went through the
cars and ordered everybody out. There
were great many immigrants on the
train and we had hard time explain
ing to them that we wanted them to
get out of the cars. We noticed two
men who seemed to be rather anxious
about their baggage. One had tin
box and the other carpet bag. We
relieved the gentlemen of their bur-
dens, and TO our great surprise we
found the bag and 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.
when we got this money, Mosby
put it ia my charge and told me to
get across the river with it as fast as
could Two men and myself i'm
mediately set out for Loudoun county
with the money, and rode hard all
night. | remember distinctly that
one of the horse. Slipped and the
rider was thrown TO the ground, scat
| tering the greenbacks he carried right
and left. ! remember, too, that the
other man and myself laughed while
he picked up the money, and teased
him.
1.-The next morning 9Tosby and the
others caught up with us and we all
stopped under tree and divided the
money. The money, believe, amount
ed to about $l5O000. We weren't
very enthusiastic about it, because we
didn't know whether it was good for
anything or not. The treasury notes
were fresh from the press and some Of
them bore 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
81 do not remember how many
prisoners we took. One of our men, }.
Monroe Huskell, gave $50 of his money
to major whom he had captured:
Some over-zealous guerilla had relieved
the major of his overcoat, his pocket
book and his small change. ". \.
| Sun.