The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-17
funston's Capture Of Aguinaldo Recalls
Previous Similar Incidents.

Previous Similar Incidents.
Gen. Funston achievement in cap.
turing Aguinaldo recalls earlier at
tempts made by officers of other ar
mics to make prisoners OF the leaders Of
hostile fcsces. The first attempt at
seizing general was never carried
out. IL involved too many persons,
| and the plotters engaged in it worked
from the inside, not from without, as
Funston did, and their plans were
overheard. This was the attempt in
June, l.i7, to seize Washington in
New York. The plans of the conspir-
ators we're overheard by d woman. who
disclosed them to the American au-
thori.ies, and as result the men impli-
Gated we're ssr.aTed aud punished. QUO
Of them, private Thomas Hickey, Of
Washington's bodyguard, being hang
ed.
After Arnold's treason and his
flight to the British, the Americans
made an attempt to seize him. This
undertaking was like General Fun
ston's exploit. Sergt. Champe, of Lee 8
Legion, was the principal actor in the
scheme. His plan was known only to
.he chief in commapd; 80 when he de-
serted to the British his late comrades
fired upon him, and he reached the
enemy's lines under shower Of bull
let's, narrowly escaping with his life.
This was an excellent introduction to
the British, aud Champe was received
with open arms. Rnt he "ss n:s.c=
cessful; Arnold moved his headquarters
the day on which Champe had arran-
ged to capture him, and Champe had
finally to desert from the English and
return again under FIRE, to our lines.
When Washington wished soon after
to promote him for his gallantry, he
found Champe had died Of disease.
The capture of the British general,
PRESCOTT, in July, 1777, was perhaps
the first successful attempt of this
kind. General Prescott commanded
the British forces in Newport, r. l.,
and went for the summer to a fine
house some FIVE miles out Of the city.
Colonel William Barton, knowing
this, decided to capture him if pos
sible; aud on July 10, 1777, with Al
comrades, rowed across from Warwick
Point, on the west shore Of Narragan-
sett bay, and reached the house un-
discovered. The door of his house
was burst in By c negro, who used his
head as battering ram; Prescott was
asleep and awoke to find himself
prisoner. He was not allowed to
dress, but in his cloak with q captor
carrying his clothes, Was forced &c the
boat, and taken within the American
lines and then to Washington's head
quarters in New Jersey. He was ex-
changed later. The successful cap
ture of General Stoughton by Mosby
and his Rangers in March, 1868, was
the result of a carefully made plan.
Mosby, with 20 men entered Fairfax
Court House, passing themselves off
as belonging to the Fifth New Y ork
cavalry, and while some Of the band
attempted to capture Colonel Wynd-
ham, the leader went to the house
where the general was sound asleep.
At the name Of Mosby, General
Stoughton sat upin bed, wide awake
in an instant. ''Have you got him?"
he asked. "He's got you" replied
Mosby. The prisoner was taken 20
General Fitzhugh Lees headquarters,
from the very midst Of camp in
which lay several thousand troops.
The attempt to capture Sitting Bull
was not made by strategy c. trick; our
Indian scouts went openly to the oiG
chiefs tent, and when and when they
tried to arrest the famous Sioux were
met with bullets; they returned the
fire and killing him, losing some of
their own number. Funston's capture
of Aguinaldo was marked by we'll
devised plan, involving more danger
than that Of any other plot except
Sergt. Champe's and requiring longer
time and moro careful work, with the
same exception.-Nep York Sun.