The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-26

could distinctly hear laughing and taking
as we approached and see the men as they
stood around their camp fires engaged IN
conversation, and when we reached t!le
main road in front Of the encampment.
7 could see that our presence was not
observed by the Union soldiers.
There was long plank st''o'e Oh ste
side of the road fronting lnWaraiy. we
found a gateway through it into the en-
earnpn,ent, where stood sentinel o'ii
guide wanted us to pass the sentinel, say
inc that the officers horses were nenr
which we could easily bride and take out
by the sentinel without any questions be-
ing asked as he would take us for some
of the boys out pirouting. But seeing q
large stable full of horses on the opposite
side of the road, and ascertnln.nS that
there was no guard over this stable. l
determined to try for the horses there,
after discovering the strength of the en-
campment, which was composed of three
regiments of cavalry.
THE BARON'S IDEA.
Eve entered the stable and each of us
took u horse and led it across the held into
the edge of the woods, where we had left
Colonel Mosby. After waiting a while and
seeing that our act created no commo-
ton in the camp, I suggested 10 Colonel
Mosby the advisabiity of going back TO the
stable with more men and get more
horses. He readily consented, and I soon
had plenty of volunteers. On this trip
the Baron accompanied me. We entered
the stable and as there were more horses
than men, it was amusing to see how ac-
tive every man was in securing a good
horse: and the only way to determine this
was by feeling them, as it was very dark
in the stable. While this method of Sc
lecting was going on, and observing that
the Baron was as active as my of the
others in making the selection, l asked
him what he thought of it. He replied:
ON. dis IS not fighting, dis is stealing
I'VE made the trip across the field to
where we had left the Colonel. and seeing
that still no notice WIS taken OF us, we
made another trip. and we got all the
horses in the stable and got out success
fully without firing a shot.
II learned afterwards from a deserter
that the horses belonged to q Mnssachu-
sets regiment, and that the men of that
regiment went through the camp late the
next evening looking for their horses and
to see who had stolen them.
A GENEROUS ACT.
'"The Baron was also with US in an at
tuck made on the Maryland Battalion near
Harper's Ferry during the month of jan
uary. 1861 In this attack we had lost
some of our best officers and men II was
there that I witnessed an act on his part
that impressed me more than anything
that l had seen of his generous chivalry
and kind-heartedness. Not knowing that
Colonel Mosby had ordered the men to
leave the camp, and believing that he was
wounded in it, determined with the as
sistance OF Captain William Smith TO find
him. We entered the camp the second
time, and were trying to move young
Paxton. who had been severely wounded,
when Smith was killed by a voley fired
from a group standing not more than
twenty yards from him. A few minutes
afterwards Lieutenant Grey informed me
that Colonel Mosby had ordered retreat.
Just as we started to join our comrades
we saw soldier, who had dismounted,