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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., A fight, a dead man, and a coffin: an incident of 1864 . (search)
A fight, a dead man, and a coffin: an incident of 1864.
The incident about to be narrated occurred in November, 1864, when Early with his 8,000 or 9,000 men had been compelled to retire up the Valley before Sheridan, with his 30,000 or 40, 0000; and when, in the excess of their satisfaction at this triumph of the Federal arm perville, Paris, Oak Grove, or elsewhere; then Mosby set out; and he nearly always came back with spoils — that is to say, arms, horses, and prisoners.
In November, 1864, this state of things had become intolerable.
Early had been forced to retire — that wolf with the sharp claws; but Mosby, the veritable wildcat, still linge gone now with many others to a land where war never comes.
We proceed to record the incident which we have referred to.
It occurred, as we have said, in November, 1864, and the scene was a mansion perched upon a hill, with a background of woods, between the little village of Millwood and the Shenandoah.
This house was well