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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
nts were encamped around this village, where the Headquarters of Colonel Wyndham, a brigade commander, and those of Colonels Stoughton Stoughton was promoted from colonel of the Fourth Vermont Infantry to brigadier-general Nov. 5, 1862, but not beStoughton was promoted from colonel of the Fourth Vermont Infantry to brigadier-general Nov. 5, 1862, but not being confirmed, his appointment expired by constitutional limitation March 4, 1863. When captured, March 9, 1863, he probably had not received notification of his non-confirmation, and was practically still a brigadier-general, the vacancy in the Fooses of his soldiers so that they may seize the principal officers of the enemy, and goes himself to pay a visit to Colonel Stoughton, with whose quarters he was fully acquainted. He had the great pleasure of finding him asleep and of waking him upter having hidden himself without clothes under a stack of hay; but many other officers had been taken by surprise like Stoughton, while Mosby, as fortunate as he was daring, succeeded in getting through the Federal lines unperceived, taking with hi