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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 6 0 Browse Search
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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, My capture and escape from Mosby. (search)
itself, and the boys were quick in understanding my purpose and intimating their readiness to risk their lives in the attempt. Two of them, in particular-George W. McCauley, of Western Virginia, commonly known as Mack, and one Brown, of Blaser's scouts-afterward proved themselves heroes of the truest metal. We journeyed rapiep was warlike in the extreme, and made a Rembrandt picture on my memory which will never be effaced. I had taken care, on lying down, to place myself between McCauley and Brown, and the moment the rebels began to snore and the sentry to nod over his pipe, we were in earnest and deep conversation. McCauley proposed to unite ouMcCauley proposed to unite our party and make a simultaneous rush for the carbines, and take our chances of stampeding the guard and making our escape; but on passing the whisper quietly along our line, only three men were found willing to assent to it. As the odds were so largely against us, it was useless to urge the subject. The intrepid McCauley then p