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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Retaliation by Colonel Mosby. (search)
letter, written to General Sheridan by Colonel Mosby, will show that the murder of our men by the Yankee cavalry in the Valley has not gone unavenged. It is brief and to the point, and worthy of the writer: "November 11, 1864. "Major-General P. H. Sheridan, commanding United States Forces in the Valley: "General: Some time in the month of September, during my absence from my command, six of my men, who had been captured by your forces, were hung and shot in the streets of Front Royal, by the order, and in the immediate presence, of Brigadier-General Custer. Since then, another (captured by a Colonel Powell on a plundering expedition into Rappahannock) shared a similar fate. A label, affixed to the coat of one of the murdered men, declared 'that this would be the fate of Mosby and all his men.' "Since the murder of my men, not less than seven hundred prisoners, including many officers of high rank, captured from your army by this command, have been forwarded to