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The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
he narrative of the adventures of this unblushing scoundrel: Why I Went to Dixie — How I met Mosby. I left Washington on the 19th of March last for the purpose of invading the "sacred soil" tng myself on having succeeded in doing so unobserved when I was surrounded by a grinning gang of Mosby's robbers. They declared me to be a Yankee spy, and, in spite of all the persuasion and argumenisoner. Their chief was at Upperville, and to his august presence I had to be conveyed. I knew Mosby was a lawyer and would ask me a hundred questions. I knew, too, that the same questions and mano prevent my being treated as an enemy while obliged to remain in the Confederacy. In answer to Mosby's inquiries I told him that I was a refugee from the North; that I had suffered a long confinemeect.--He at first regarded me with suspicion; but I repeated with additions the story I had told Mosby, and, in answering his questions, managed to interpolate some flattering remarks which I pretend