Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-03

very little. II any, damage done but
they were very annoying. when |
asked " the leaders wcrc recognized,
and who they were, It was the almost
invariablc answer. whom In the affirm
alive. that they were MeGlnnis. Orrick
and Bailey. SO ! began to look upon
lhis trio as q Veritahle band OF pirates;
they were at the head ana front Of
every Wild raid and the very mention
OF their names would make the sutlers
and small storekecpcrs tremble in. their
Doors. | pictured them In my mind as
big. burly, middle.aged men with fierce
black boards and rough, coarse voices.
Two Bo,ish Tcrrors.
One day, after the surrender OF Lees
army, q guard came In from the picket
line with two Confederate soldiers. who
had come in to surrender. AS they APP
preached headquarters one OF our
scouts recognized them and told me
that they were McGinnis and Bailey.
Just then they entered the Office and
10 my utter surprise l saw two small,
delicate-limhed bays. McGinn's. who
was the older and "A trle the larger
was twenty-one years old and bailey
n fair-haired lad IN his nineteenth
year. lie appeared TO have been ton
derby nurtured, and his voice, nstear
OF being coarse and rough, had scarce
~ changed. His checks were as smooth
as u girls and his soft blue eyes had
none of the look that one expects to
see In a desperate. The only indlca-
tlun he gave OF the rough life lie had
led during the past three years was
a limp that resulted from bullet
wound IN his right hip.
Orrick, they told me, who was lust
Bailey's age ana much like him phys
ically had entered the lines further up
| the valley, near Winchester
And so my Ideal OF Mosby's uer-
/ rllla's was rudely shattered. Just about
| this time a plan had been prepared at
General HancocRs headquarters for
| the capture OF Colonel Moshy and his
band, which was the only armed party
| then In the held hostile TO our govern
/ mcnt. Major General n. W. Egan,
who commanded the division and on
| whose stan / served, had been direct
ed to cross the mountain range at
Smokers Gap and stretch his line
from that point eastward, In order 10
meet the cavalry that was to come
from Washington, and make a contin-
uous line from the mountains to the
| Potomac river. That river and the
Shenandoah were both strongly polSct-
ed, and somewhere in this triangle
We're Colonel Mostly and his troopers
The infantry and cavalry, all under
command OF General Egan, were then
to move forward toward the opposite
and strengthening the line. In this
way we would, sooner or later, develop
She encmy's position, and then the
fight would begin, This program was
a good one, but was never carried out.
The reason was that great tragedy
occurred just ON the eve of our de-
parture that not only put stop TO
their movement. but startled the entire
world.
General Egan's three brigades, COM
mauded respectively by General G., b,
Raum, General Arson g. McCook and
General David McKibben, were under
arms and the entire camp, with tents
struck and baggage packed. waiting
for the orders to move, The brigade
commanders We're all at divialou head
quarters, but General Egan had gone
to Winchester TO receive his laHt In
struotlons from General Hancock
Presently we saw an orderly come
tearing across the lawn from the tele-
graph station, urging his horse to its
utmost speed,
why Mosby wnsn't Captured.
'Here comes our orders" remarked