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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
rs to have protected himself very badly. Harry Gilmor, the indefatigable chief of the Southern partisans, is promptly informed of this neglect. While a part of his troop is going to tempt fortune on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and captures a post which was guarding Back Creek bridge, he makes himself acquainted with all the approaches to Charlestown, and proposes to Imboden to take its garrison by surprise. Starting at night, the Confederates come in sight of its suburbs on the 18th of October before daybreak. They have not been observed. Gilmor makes a detour with his men and a regiment of cavalry, the Eighteenth Virginia, to cut off the enemy's retreat on Harper's Ferry: shortly after, Imboden, with the remainder of the brigade, about eight hundred men, presents himself before the town and summons Simpson to surrender. The latter, who is taken by surprise, endeavors to defend himself, but the assailants do not give him the time: attacked and pressed upon all sides, the F