The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07

latter and would mention one or two
men to ride and tie" with him during
the day and when night came, tell him
to get the first horse he could lay his
hands on. I recolect giving these direc
tions to Sergeant Strayhorn and ]. X.
Umstead and there may have been others.
The owner would follow next morning
find his horse, report to Gen. Stuart who
would give orders to give up the horse
and to prefer charges against the rider
1 simply repeated the program of the pre-
vious day.
| Having been placed in command of the
| impressing squad for the End Horse l knew
| it might require fast moving perhaps
faster to the rear than the front. con-
Guided 1 would ride one Of Uuncle Sans
mules, and got one of the men (Henry
Tilley) to try several for me; some OF
them landed him on the earth pretty soon
after mounting. but he found one l
| thought would answer, upon which
placed one of the wagon saddles, turned
| nv horse over to Bob Walker. whose
horse had given out, mounted the mule
and getting the men started out to get
ahead of the command, as the first out
would have nearest field to CLEAN. Inc
| Colonel commanding the brigade stopped
mo and | reported to Lit. Col PANE anu
| told him the only reason he could nave
was TO allow the other regiments 10 se'
ahead of the 2nd Col Paine sent MN d
| MESSAGE Inv a courier that he Would pe
glad for his regiment to have equal SNOW
Ti+b tho others: shortly word came loF
tho squad to proceed. / had gotten some
three miles from the command, had ABOUT
tyventv horses, was standing with one
49,, IN the road waiting for the others to
return again. when an officer IN olue
5oobed ont of the woods into the road
about forty steps from me. L saw MN
Fret and covered him with my pistol ana
| told him to advance. and took his arms.
On his sword was engraved Lt-oiileius
| 18th Penn. Cav. presented by the ladles
of Allepbanv City I asked his name
and command and why he was theIe'
He rcphed 1--WE attacked stuart on INC
nike and were routed" asked Where
| his regiment was, he rephed scatteIcu
| in those woods l signairc1 my men ,, III
and we struck out for the pll>a. mere ',
were only six Of US. 1t was one VI rilo
! most unpleasant rides l ever took. ~
probability was that at any time a>squao
of the 18th Pennsylvania too numerous
! for us would overhaul us and captors
would become prisoners. l however got
| in with my horses and prisoner ana sent
the latter on to the provost guard.
| Papertown was reached shortly after
crossing the Pennsylvania line and a large
quantity of writing paper loaded IN some
Of the wagons In a few hours the COM
mand reached Hanover. Here the enemy
were found in force. The leading regiment
of the brigade was ordered into actlon
hut soon came back The End was then
nut in and cut its way considerable
distance into the opposing forces; out
finding them closing in on their rear as
we'll as in front and on flank. endeavored
to escape to the left and rear. Very rev
qot out on horseback and hardly as many
by dismounting and going through enclo-
sures Not more than % escaped deaIn
or CAPTURE Some of the men had as many
! as four prisoners whom they had to re
| lease. There were several sabre contests.
| 1t. Col. Paine and few others dIsmount-
ed to seek shelter in the buildings OF
tan ward: the Col fell into vat about
half full of hides, swallowed a reasonable
amount of Athe liquid in the vat. He
crawled out as quickly as he could put
by the time he struck the ground, either
! his potion became weary of beng In nm
or he of retaining it, and it began to re-
| turn whence it came; in his seaslckness
he wallowed on the pile of hair that had
been removed from the hides before plac-
| ing them in the vat, and much of 1t De
came attached to him. When he was IL
nally able to stand on his feet, some Off
GERS passing along and seeing him one OF
them said What sort OF Santa Claus
are your He replied II will not tell
you anything until you give me drink
This being done he told who he was and
| gave up his arms. For some reason Gen.
Stuart sent no aid to the End Horse. al
though Hampton came up soon alter he
did not renew the fight. He came back
to the wagon train about the time l
| reached it; the enemy were advancing IN
our rear but Fitz Lee came from the lett
before they reached the wagons and drove
them off and took the road to Carlisle.
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