The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-09-13


ter division. And then, when the
long roll had hurried couple Of
frightened soldiers from their s!um-
berS into fighting rank, they found
nothing but the place where the pick
ct post had been. Mosby was gone,
gone with it in his pocket, swallowed
up in the darkness whence he had
shot forth.
This scrt of thing made him very
unpopular with tho Union armies.
Your veteran soldier much prefers
being shot at, and even killed, to be-
ing startled out of sound sleep at 2
a. III and compelled to form for fight
and then get no fighting. Mosby
got on the nerves of every soldier
within hundred miles of him.
The war department at Washington,
lrrltated at repeated failures of the
regular troops to deal with him, offer.
cd extraordinary inducements to any
one who would abatc his. nuisance.
And from time to time squadron of
picked men, headed by some brave
and seasoned old soldier who had
agreed to exterminate Mosby's men,
would sally forth in quest of their
quarry. They would scour ali North
ern Virginia, in vain, for Mosby was
always somewhere else. He never
consulted their convenience as to time
or place. Then, someday, when they
had grown careless and doubtful of
ever hndlng their prey, they would
find him.
The usual result OF these discove er.
les is naively set forth in dispatch
from q general from whose camp there
had set out few days before daunt.
less colonel, who, with 500 determin.
ed spirits at his back, had taken the
contract to clean out Mosby,'!' as the
dispatch stated. The doughty colon.
el, 30 the document informs the do.
partment, had met Mosby that morn.
ing with about 200 men and forth
with had slipped the leashes on his
ooo exterminators. "Two Of the
oolonefs men escaped and me In. :"
That is ell the general says about the
Ggh.-
The reason Mosby's men were never
at home" when thus called upon
was that except when engaged in ao.
tive service they did not retain theil
organization, but scattered nd
among the many farmhouses Of tha,
fertile region Many Of them had
their homes there. Others LODGED
at places known to their chief. He
Kept scouts ever fitting like phan
toms along the Federal lines, and
when from their information he deter,
mined 70 strike Q blow the cali went
iorth has as though on wings to such Of
ms troopers as he desired to take with
MN. " here an hour before there
ha0 oeen 'e'1 atong ehe countrywide quiet
young men, engaged 10 special ,pur.
suits las@ Of making love to the girls Of
the the neighborhood, there now rode out
sa nad'ron N'i'.'i OF veteran cavalry, ed uip,
poa as no soldiers on either side
Were' 2 deadly missile in the. hands
ofa soldier who knew we'll just how
and i|' whittier nth to harlit. No time wal
1851 'ss'.t'' after the assembling. On swift
norrseea, eth the best best the United States
aovernment ,''' . u, could furnish, they gal
pd loped behind their leader, swept down
upon the enemy. o yelling, shooting
death 'adh : dealing !''Ig cyclone Of horse. and
man, drove their blow home, aud were
away ''' before the ss.oniaRed fugitiyee
could hurry up support. 81
This his method Of warfare was con,
demned by the North as being wholly
wanton: There seemed to beno sys. Is