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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Capture of a Federal officer by a boy. (search)
Capture of a Federal officer by a boy. But few of the readers of the Dispatch know the fact that one of the first prisoners taken on the field of Manassas was captured by Geo. H. Burwell, a boy of 13 years, son of Mr. N. Burwell, of Clarke county, Va. It was on this wise: The boy "had heard of wars and longed to follow in the train" of some bold leader to avenge his country's wrongs; but being too young to enter regularly into service, he accompanied his father, as an independent volunteer, to the plains of Manassas, and with fowling piece in hand, held himself ready to bring down Northern vultures at sight. About the commencement of the famous rout George saw a Yankee Lieutenant making a retrograde movement, and, putting whip to his horse, made after him. "Kickapoo" (who was as keen to catch a Hessian as his young master) cleared the fence at a bound and soon showed the retreating officer that one pair of legs are of little avail against two pair; he stopped short and displ