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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Capture of generals Crook and Kelly of the Federal army. (search)
Capture of generals Crook and Kelly of the Federal army.
One of the Coolest deeds on record.
General Benjamin F. Kelly, of West Virginia, who died July 16, 1891, near Oakland, Md., was captured with General Crook at Cumberland, Md., during February, 1864, by a detachment of Neill's Rangers, led by Dr. J. L. Vandiver, a v . The story often narrated by Vandiver, is briefly summed up as follows:
General Crook had just been assigned to the command of the department which embraced Cumb ad not yet left the city, and was stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, while General Crook had his headquarters at the Revere House.
On that February night they slep uts from New Creek.
Vandiver himself took the responsibility of securing General Crook from the Revere House, and to the well-known Kuykendall was assigned the du e, captured the sentinel in charge by pretending to be a dispatch-bearer to General Crook, and finally succeeded in reaching his bed-room.
He announced himself to t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.42 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)