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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The fight at Fairfax Court-House. (search)
ere they expected to find and capture the cavalry, firing into the houseson the main street as they rode along, and calling as they passed "come out, you lazy devils." The Virginia cavalry, through some misapprehension, partly occasioned by the absence of their Captain, whose horse ranaway with him, had retreated a few minutes before to Centreville, breaking the ranks of the Rifles as they rode through, and throwing Captain Mart back into a field, where he was immediately shot dead by one of Sharp's rifles, fired, we suppose, by the spy — thought, in the darkness and confusion, it was almost impossible to distinguish friends from foes. Just then the clock struck 3. The officer in command, without his scout, rushed out to the spot where the Rifles, ignorant of the fate of their Captain, were waiting for orders; but, not knowing the officer, hesitated to follow his lead till informed who he was, when they said, "Sir, we obey you," and were marched by him down the street, and formed in