The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-22

Pratt. = and Il man, whom | recognized
from descriptions as Col Moseby told
me he wanted General Stoughton. lie
had 25 men with him. Some of them
brushed by me and went to the gen
eral 5 room and ordered him to dress
at once. He did and they took us out
and put us on horses that they had
taken from the corral, animals that
were there because Of unfitness for
service.
'.In all they had % prisoners, all
but the general and myself having
| been videttes and outposts who were
| captured without alarming others by
| Col. MGseby' s men on their way to
! take Col. Johnson who was the man
! they wanted He had been a prisoner
! and paroled and had broken his pa
/ role and joined his regiment. Moseby
| knew this and intended to capture him
and string him up The colonel was IN
| Washington on court martial duty and
| they took General Stoughton rather
than go back without an officer.
.sThe horses upon which we were
mounted were all tied on one long
rope. and surrounded by our guards
we started on a long march. We
forded the Rappahannock and Bal
Run and then rode across the battle
field of Bull Run. The rihepits were
still there and the horses ridden by the
troopers jumped them but my ANNA
in trying it jumped into the trenci
and threw me over his head agains
the breastworks, the fall causing ba,
! rupture.
'sThey put me on the animal again
IN
told Col Moseoy | could not ride he
, cause ] had been injured. Damn YOU
: why cant YOU ride?' he demanded
told him that / did not enlist as
+ cavalryman but AZ a private in tn
- 10th Vermont. One of his men sus
gested that they shoot the -
- and leave the body. Moseb
: replied that they would not 10 tina
but as ! was an infautrvman | coul
walk. They tied one of my wrist
to the rope to which the horses wsr
tied and ran and walked that nigh
and The next day TO Culpepper Coul
House.
'.This was General Fitzhugh Lee
headquarters and ne and Gener;
: Stoughtou had been ehums at schoo
! General Stonghton got permission fro
General Lee to remain with him. an
Z the other prisoners were sent to Ande
snville Next morning General St0uel
ton and | were taken to Richmond, Il
l. general armed with written permissic
). frem Fitzhugh Lee for rs to spend Il
J. first night in a hotel before beir
: placed in Libby prison.
1--WE attracted so much attentio
however, in the hotel that after we hi
- got to the room assigned us, they can
for Ms and we marched through fill
soldiers from the hotel to Libby. The
. - sergeant stripped us aud took ever
thing of any value we had. We we
r on the first floor Of Libby which
used as q prison for officers. We we
put in there on the night Ct Mar
III II and | remained there l6 days
g . On March - 1T midnight lot
re us were marched ont of the prison n
SO lined up while an officer began cour
D. ing rs. ! realized then that sol
n were to be exchanged and others Sc
10 Andersouville aud was delight,
naturally, TO realize that | was one
k the fortunate ones to be paroled. Gle
n Stoughton was not one Of the numb
:, marched out that night and remain
y in prison some time longer before
ing exchanged. He never reentcr
Ne the service
Sc "Thosc Of Us who had been sele
a. ed for exchange went 10 City To-
and later TO the parole camp at 4
n napolis Ia May | was exchanged a
We joined my company at Fairfax $
CHI tion.
tie Mr.. Pratt was side by side "
IS. with Henry Hyde Miller of Bratt
a. boro in support of battery at
top of the ridge VIII n Pickett S II
made their famous charge. He Y
M mustered out here with the regim,
as anu lmmeaiateIV re-ehteFed the emp
-, of Asa Miller & Co. and continued W
VIE ~ - ~" O. nv -
~, and is still with that concern.
Mr.. Pratt has been twice MARI