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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
o go in search of them in the very centre of the Federal quarters, at Fairfax Court-house, between Washington and Hooker's army. Several regiments were encamped around this village, where the Headquarters of Colonel Wyndham, a brigade commander, and those of Colonels Stoughton Stoughton was promoted from colonel of the Fourth Vermont Infantry to brigadier-general Nov. 5, 1862, but not being confirmed, his appointment expired by constitutional limitation March 4, 1863. When captured, March 9, 1863, he probably had not received notification of his non-confirmation, and was practically still a brigadier-general, the vacancy in the Fourth Vermont having been filled.—Ed. and Johnson, were located. Favored by darkness, Mosby, with twenty-nine men, slips between these camps, surprises and gags one guard, penetrates into the village, disposes of his soldiers so that they may seize the principal officers of the enemy, and goes himself to pay a visit to Colonel Stoughton, with whose quart