The Washington times., 1911-11-30

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bseco:" and on the next day Sheridan
people last night report that there Is
to be meeting today at Rectortown,
and that from what they can collect
Ausur tsa tssn N wrss ies a'es9a so Sa%ss
The following telegram has Just been
received from Major General Sheridan.
Have your command in readiness for
answers, Dispatch received; viii be in
readiness for the enemy" Then Gamble
orders Colonel Albright at Fairfax sta:
ton: You will have your command
readiness @ Tor an Ss'0a attack at any any point
StreDgthen your line in the direction OF
Rectortown and direct Captain Wing to
throw his cavalry pickets we'll to the
'front.' Have your artillery in position"
Conflicting Reports.
Thcn on the same day Sheridan tele-
graphs Stevenson. com nmandinG. at Har-
per's Ferry: II had a report this morn
ing that Mosby would collect at Rec
tortown at 10 o'clock today to raid
toward Fairfax Courthouse. think
that he did assemble for SOME purpose. :"
To which Stevenson replied: II have
information today that Moeby was in
the neighborhood Of Lersburg." / was
more than q hundred miles away In
Richmond. Then Stevenson anxiously
inquired Of Captain Spence at Point Of
Rocks about me."Have you any infor-
Keyes send scout into Loudoun In d.
rection OF Westerfortl and report all In
formation collected Of Mosby.'' The
anxiety about me was increased by the
at Warrington. to Sheridan: Refugees
from. Lynchburg report to the COM
mandina officer at Fairfax Courthouse
@s'oy has nssn Ss by
passed through Warrentcn. marching in
the direction Of Heymarket. and that
they saw the campfres Of this force in
the Hull Run mountains" Then Augur
Scouts report TO General Stevenson, at
Harper's Ferry that Mosby's people are
In camp at Dry Mills, three miles from
Leesburg and that Mosby himself has
Count sbats your vilissncs in patroiling
the country In front Of your lines. .
Gamble sends this answer to Augur:
The following Information Just re-
burg corroborates your telegram OF yes
terdaY. that Mosby had been re-en-
forced by infantry. which had moved
through Warrenton two days ago, They
mountains Of brigade. They saw Mos
by at Gordonsviiie on Sunday. The
probability IL that the attack. II any is
made. will be here or at Fairfax sta
o1a o,on: IN have taken the respensibility to
n9is Cavalry. at Annandale and Falls
Church. and the company Of artillery
At Annandale. to this post and to afford
s.sp SPRSrt tse coSntry TO aa II os ns w
6y csyalry;" Again on the same day
Gamble telegraphs AuHur: 1T have
seven companies Of cavalry continually
scouting and patrolling In front" Then
Prospect HUI. in Fairfax. near the Po-
tomac and In sight Of Washington, to
send squadron OF cavalry about five
miies to your front to scout, connecting
VIII be sent from Col. g. 9. GaiIup's
been received from General Sheridan
through General Augur and from other
at any moment"
Sought Reinsurance.
Similar orders were sent to the COM
manding officers at Vienna and Fairfax
Station. Tho panic in the camps last
ed several days, and things looked SO
threatening that Augur on December O.
to relieve CANDLES anxiety about this
imaginary foe. informs him that Sher-
idan will send on December 10 division
Of cavalry to the east side of the Blue
Ridge. where my men made their rem.
devious. At last Augur was satisfied
raid that had almost created a STAN.
pede was hoax. and he tries to calm
Gamble by the ssurance that for the
present at least he was safe: II do moi
at present. At all events you will know
from your scouts in time to bring those
companies from Annadale and Falls
Church" These villages were only q
FairfaI Courthouse; To the last dis.
Telegram just received. The real poin' i
Of attack, II any is made. will be either
here or at Fairfax Station. At Prospec,
panies Of artillery each: Their position
has abatis and stockades nearly com.
pleted. Here and at Fairfax Station
there was nothing (no fortificationsl
have now ten companies Of cavalry
and three Of artillery at this post. three
companies less than at Vienna or Pros.
pect Hill; at Fairfax Station three com.
panies OF infantry and two companies
The headquarters were at the court.
house. but all of these troops were ir
the territory commanded by Colonel
Gamble. At the time when these pre-,
incursion there was no hostile organiza.
ton I'm a hundred miles except my cav.
airy battalion of about 800 men. Tha,
II should create such alarm so near the
Capital is the more remarkable, as the
resources OF the Confederacy were ther
nearly exhausted and the war closed
three or four months afterward. Gam.
BILE kept on fortifying himself. Durins
nv absence in Richmond Captain
Chapman heard that General Tibbetts
was in the habit of sending strone
scouting parties to Berry's Ferry and
The object clearly was to get informa.
tlon and prevent our crossing the river
Tibbetts no doubt. acted under orders
for he must have known that the de.
captured- and In n report he stated