Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1892, Page 10

f A 2 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1S¥2—PART TWO. — _ — — = SESS men wounded and 8 men missing. SPRINGFIELD STATION. October 3, 1861—Eight hundred men of New- ton’s brigade under command Coil. Pratt, thirty-first New York regiment, skirmished with confederate pickets at Springfield. BUBKE's STATION. December 4, 1861—Skirmish, occupied by | Union forces March 9, 1862. March 10, 1862—-Skirmish, one company of the first New York cavalry and confederate infantry; federal loss 1, Lieut, Hidden; con- federate loss, 19. December 28, 1862—The head of Stuart's raiding expedition reached Burke's station after dark. Gen. Stuart in his reportof the affair says: “A party was sent to the tele- graph office and took possession without the operators having a chance to give the alarm, ing already reached Washington, and dispatches were passing over the wire between Gen. Heintzelman and the commanding officer at Fairfax station. I sent some messages to Gen. M. C. Meigs, United States army, in reference to the bad quality of the mules lately fur- Warrenton (or Suiphur Springs)—November 18, 1662. action; December $5, 1862, okirmish: icking Run Bridge—November 30, 1863, skirmish. Hay Market—June 24 and October 19, 1863, actions. —August 29, 1962, battle. fai Groveton South of these points fighting was at certain periods almost continual and space will not admit of a more extended account, as it is the purpose of article to include only the de- tails of those minor affairs which were within comparatively short distances of the capital, To the west of the city, in Virginia, the fol- lowing occurred: AT FALLS cHUncn. November 16, 1861—Capture of a federal foraging party, consisting of a captain, lien- tenant and thirty-five privates of the thirtieth New York regiment anda train of six wagons by the second Mississippi cavalry of Stuart's leading from Mplls’ Church to Fairfax Court House, a little over a mile from the former place. The first Virginia cavalry made an at- ‘tack on the pickets of the fourteenth New York state militia. Federal loss, 2 killed and 1 wounded; confederate loss, 1 killed and 2 wounding 7 and capturing 3. and taking Yhorses. A captured Lieut, arty started in pursuit and . H. Hunter of Mosby's HERNDON, March 17, 1868—The federal reserve picket post, consisting of twenty-five men, under | command of Second Lieut. Alexander G. Wat- m, company L, first Vermont cavalry, was surprised by Mosby, with twenty-one men under bis command, and together with Maj. William Wells, Capt. Robert Schoficid and |Lfeut. Perley C. J. Cheney, all of the first Vermont, who were visiting the post, were captured, | DRANESVILLE. | November 26-7, 18¢1—Skirmish, Draneaville (near Herndon). First Pennsylvania cavalry, Col, Geo. D, Bayard. Confederate loss, 2 | killed and 4 wounded. brigade, Kern's battery, and a squadron of | cavalry, under Major Jones, for the purpose of capturing two nephews of Gunnell and bring- ing in the forage on the latter's farm, which was all executed successfally. ul & fi THE EXECUTION deck and thence to the «tern and ina few me ments reached the other wharf and succeeded secreting himself in the wood piles thy wharf. Here be remained uni h after IO etches when be made his way to the lady's house an shed the family, Of course he could nq 2 there, nor was tt mafe for him to remap A suit of clothes was foun . in less than @ week, he we arrested and again sent to ‘the cvcha nged, and served in the sou % he returned t% his wife bere, and the happy family now dwed in the wost end. AN ATTEMPTED RSCAPR. Tt was not always that the prisoners dwelt ty harmony, and at times it required careful mag agement to prevent scenes of violence. An im Having an operator of my own I was enabled | brigade at Doslan's farm. December 6, 1961—Expedition to Gunnell’s Rconicbine "eas ake mek uae waleeed ho pane Py prane pr phereninaeche ge og |. November 18, 1861—Skirmish on the road/ Farm, near Dranesville, of Gen. Meade's fined in the Carroll prison, who were continy ally quarrelir m) and cach’ being a well-bui » Of nearly ix feet, one a native of Engla and of Irelond. | After innumerable in: stances of quarreling between them Col. Wood thought that it bea good plan to place them so close together night and day that tl Snaust ¥ 66S Gedtetetale iglinah on tall: guide, died shortly afterward of wounds re-| pennsylvania reserve corps, frst Ponneyivanis (waou 4 FmoTogRara.) the third story. the Irichman kept : , : | Peone bees ang nye : ~ | bis room and did not avail bimecl{ BLOOD UND. road forces employed in cutting wood one ee bitten. artillery and first Pennsylvania cavulry and the " = 7 — ee eS mile cast of Burke's station. Finding s federal | Sehtemper 4. mag eee cation by the eleventh Virginia volunteers, “sixth "South BEHIND IRON BARS. three-story brick dwellings on Ist street, ex-|of the opportunity to exercine AT THE CITY’S GATES. | bounded on the north and east by the Potomac | river and on the west by the Blue Ridge, and across that range through the numerous moun- guard stationed for the protection of the force the confederates retired after fring a few ot December 4, 1862—A party of confederate seventh and twelfth regiments, Virginia cav- | frst airy, and three pieces of Chew's battery, under id of Brig. Gen. B. Hl. Robertson, C. | © Carolina volunteers, tenth Alabama volunteers, Kentucky volunteers, Sumpter's Flying ar Norti Carolina cavairy and Virginia Federal loss—7 killed, 61 wounded; in the vicinity of Dranesvillo, but was repulsed bout two-thirds n@ their site is now included in ol library inclosure. These were in How Prisoners Were Treated in This City During the War. Duddington, and for a number i vard, as did his English companion. 80 die agreeable was this arrangement to the Ia ‘that bi to take the man oat, | sar the Irishman) was #0 down ANNANDALE, 8. A., tocover the crossing of the Potomac by | te loss—43 killed, 143 wounded and | BOSPITALITIES oF cariToL AND camRort | Passable re inted of a light **" fe tha bin Geen ab ene — Se Oe ee ee Here | December 2, 1861—Confederate cavalry made the confederate army (Maryland campaign). preeeres i FRISOXS—ALL SORTS OF MEX axD wowen | {Ol0r) made 8 good appearance. Th — aif tear aid con take + | Were not only many oon! tiered i 2 N tg Peg — ae February 6, 1863—Skirmish, WERE DETAINED—A DISTRICT CITIZEN'S KO- eaten en ane Oy One ate A make him kill himself. The “ sort ye BL a if LEWINSVILLE. April 1, 1563—Capt, Flint of the first Vermont i releiersasipey “ulighcew LAet-~aat ore out getting rid af Sight of the Dome. ee eee ee ee | ee eee eee | Beptaraber 10, 106)-Gkiriniaky ooverty nia | surpciod Mosby mer ths taoath'ef Eeosdaea, | 2s =OUAE=: oe ee vy, after having been exereist into Maryland were made and Mosby was ably New York infantry and fitth Wisconsin in- The central guard h arned to Lis room, when Pat : NY . , ide | ing those of the war of 1812 ———+ cavalry fell into an ambush which was placed d Capt. Fiint and Lieut. Chas. A. Woodbury | e on the south side | ing th ~ Ww we Gk you teast® i a = - onded by Elijah V. White, thirty- th | here to price pte eaatedecdlons ser a4 been | fautry. Federal loss, 1 killed, No confederate ed Sieit cote by return courier his | of Lousiana avenue was early during the war | aie cocupied by t 4 “What ie 4 E, o hee MANY MINOR ENGAGEMENTS. eee sateen hs) Sinton Sie mee coming out to capture federal pickets, Tho | T¢Prt of this skirmish on file in the War De- | commission as major Purtiaan rangers, | used by the military and they co-operated to | Te'war go thie hoe hop and asked who it was for, and — +--- es of Weakinglon; 1 might be sei% withiar| eas:tudershan ste) seah seroed vasea by a| partment |" Rebruary 21 and 24, 18¢4—Skirmishes near | some extent with tho old police force of the & Bloody Ground, Where Warfare Waged for Four Years—Confederate Forces Always mi sight of the dome of the Capitol: WASHINGTON, D. C. Forts Stevens and Reno atatcked July 10-13, telegraph wire stretched across tho road, When the federals fired into them 6 or 7 of the cavalrymen were killed and 3 captured, 0 at Bladensburg in the war of 1812 w city, then known as the Auxiliary Guard. For | Mr. Chalmers, who owned a rope walk along time a company of New Jersey troops | navy yard, which was destro: lived in the a you were to be bung at daylight, out, aud was at once ig evil are you crying about? “Don't you know while there) What the asked Maso: was quartered here, and Lieut. John 8. Cooper | lived in the Why don't yoo Bar the Capital—Skirmishes With Mosby's | | 6° including s lieutenant; Union loss, 1 man commanded the military guard, while the late | Sar! “Ta the thivtes Dall G out! How in ‘the Partisans.’ Silver Springs, July 11-12, 196, skirmishes, | Hille. Bete Jno. H. Guard commanded the Auxiliary Guard, | tion of the row, using it as he | Groat Falls, July 7 and September 4, 1861,| ocuet ti, 1860 Majer Jour S. Mosby ae having the late veteran policemen Ed McHenry | here Simon Cameron worked many a day at ace og ong mg AB HE GENERATIONS | **itmishes. tured a federal wagon train, which he reported and W. H. Bright, who afterward went to | case. In the other part of the row Mrs. Sprigg va heg since the war are apt fo conceive the idea from reading the ordi- Bary histories of today, particularly the school histories, that the re- Dellion consisted wholly | of a series of gr battles, overlooking the | many minor conflicts. | ‘They are apt to imagine Rockvitle, Ma., July 7, 1861, expedition. Seneca Mills, Md, June 14-15, 1861, skir- mishes. Edwards Ferry, Ma., June 18 and October 4, 1861, skirmishes; October 21-22, 1861, action. ALEXANDRIA. May 5 (Sunday), 1861—Evacuation of Alex- | andria, Va, by the confederate forces (481 men). Lieut. Col A. S Taylor, Virginia vol- unteers,C. 8. A., commanding at Alexandria, wascalled upon oy order of the general-in- consisted of nineteen wagons. August 24, 1863—Mosby’s command, on an expedition to burn railroad bridges, enconn- tered and attacked a federal cavalry escort of a drove of horses at Gooding’s Tavern. Mosby himself was shot through the side and thigh and the escort escaped. The rebels also burned abridge. J. E. B. Stuart indorsed on Mosby's report of the affair a recommendation that he be promoted. October 19, 1863—Sharp cavalry skirmish between Mosby's men and federal troops. October 22, 1863--Detachments first District September 11, 186f—Action between the Wyoming, for lieutenants. The late Justice | Kept « boarding house, Dranesville and Circleville; detachments sec- Thomas C. Donn and the venerable Justice CHANGED TO PRISONS, Walter sat morning and evening to dispense Justice, and often when nececessary there was a attache present to watch proceedings in the administration of justice, es- pecially if the offonse charged against the ‘un- fortunate who had been run in by the police or the patrol guard was a purely military one, THE OLD GUARD HOUSE. The old guard house was quite large enough those expected to be brought tn from th battle of Bull Run, the government took session of both the old Capitol and ¢ buildings in the early part of July jand Col. Wm. P. 4, who was then | charge of a number of refug | had made their way here—was j | Gen. Wadsworth was then the p: having his office at the northeast corner of 19 In anticipation of the need of a prison for | w how to fix up a spring boardy out of the planks of the floor he had made the calculation that he would not only be 0 elastic 7 him bey: After some earnest talk Patrick ‘ke the chances of the spring board A DANGEROUS aUmP. wo long boards were fastened together an@ f thé sill of the window land 2o'clock im the morning the ; ¢ for municipal purposes in time of peace, but in | : rfise porto yg ¢ Columb: Cal ~ pal purp ime of peace, nd I streets, and th d sent to Col. Wo: i armies marching from | C*ief to give, in writing, bis reasons why he Govuue mast pao = ee, ae, nineteenth Indiana infantry, sixty-fifth New | ond Massachusetts and sixteenth New York cav- | war times was frequently too small. Especially | was e detal oy tee cent org ny edly ger ey — one great battle to| Fetired from Alexandria. He gave as such | dale, killing 1 and capturing 3. York infantry, seventy-ninth New York in-| 3. a 06 i964 Mosby at Dranesvill was this the case when attention was turned to | tenant, Here were committed from ‘Col. Wood ha " | inefficient condition of histroopsand| © March 16, 1864—A small party of ‘iMus | f avi int amiedives| lovee ee camp followers, pick: ts and b 4} to time deserters, blockade runners, pri ~ other, unopposed, with all the “pomp and | Feasons i a 5. ty of guerrillas | fantry, second Vermont infantry, third Ver- eee mp followers, pi sand bummers, an 4 unners, p i. Tho gust ep circumstance of glorious war.” The old | because he possessed information of the in- — a lee. lers below Annandale. | mont infantry, third New York battery and 2 the cells in the r he building as well as | ers of state, &c. bee bs = 16 captives were hel - 3 Veterans now assembled in this city from all | tention of the federal government to occupy by a guard of two men while the others continued on their expedi- fifth U. S. artillery, under command of Col. April 1, 18683—Action. and to be enlarged by’ the er ten so crowded the lodger 0 could searcely lay down to up. when it wae at bevond a sprained ankle anda few 2 tei LERSRURG. that the p: the yards, General was wrt. He then placed Parts of the country, taught in the dear school | Alexandria y| tion. The former killed the guard. and| fames. Stevens and the thirteenth Virginia | 0 sober 21, 1861 Engagement rest. Ithas been said that military law is the from 300 to 400 pri kind re of De, Bert. cnh beltgend of experience, know how erroneous such an |; Virginia cat cremation oe peed escaped. (ae Washington artillery and a detachment of the | March 8, 1862—Leesburg and Fort Johnston | moet clastic of any, and numerous were the one occasion there were some 1,500 prisoners | hung in a owing fore fow ona. August 31, 1861—Skirmish. impression a victory we A battle might be fought and | but that faet did not bring re- Heights and Alexandria, Daring the occupa- tion of the latter place Col. E. Elmer Elis- first Virginia cavalry, under command of Col. J. E. B. Stuart. Federal loss, 6 killed and § eceupied by the federal troops, twenty-cighth | Pennsylvania regiment, Col. Geary. The con- cases when offenses not covered by statute or municipal regulation by the elusticity of captured by Hancock cared for. number residing There are a ct who had some THE MINTT ie ai ae neil anal warts r ‘ch om sone the military law received punishinent. | experience as priso: das may be —_ & The armice faced each! worth, commanding the eleventh New York Se ues Semen OMe, eles ot WE 8)| preesas cAI Bcak oe MINALL GY” Pickpocketa aid thieves of other’ dessription | supposed, eo dight cause Delng’ ‘es ary to | they Fe i 5 Battle, September 1, 1862, seventy-ninth New York regiment were re- = : F They Form an Association and Elect Officers , Sept er 1, stored to them by order of Maj. Gen. McClel-| September 2, 1862—Skirmish between second | were here in large numbers and through the secure an arrest, there were a nui © who LONG BRID GE IN 1861. ether like gladiators or prize fighters, the vietor fearful of losing advantage gained and watching for the opportunity to strike another Diow, and the vanquished guarding against firther disaster and seeking to retrieve the “ekle fortunes of war.” And in the mean- time every day bad its little skirmishes and (the first Fire Zouaves of New York city), was shot by Jackson, the proprietor of the Marshall House. Capt. Ball of the confederate army and his cavalry troop of thirty-five men were captured. The confederates retired on the Orange and Alexandria railroad, burning the bridges behind them. A train of cars from Leesburg to Alexandria was intercepted by the Union forces about six miles from the latter November 28-30, 1862—Reconnaissances to Snicker’s Ferry and Berryville, Va., from Chan- tilly and skirmishes by troops of Brig. Gen. Stahle’s first division, eleventh corps, consist- ing of the fourth New York cavalry, ninth New York cavalry, first West Virginia and sixth Ohio. Skirmished with the twelfth and thirty- fifth Virginia cavalry; Chantilly and Frying Pan, December 29, 1862 (see Fairfax Station); February 10, 1863, skirmish; March 28, skir- mish on the Little River turnpike near Chan- lly; February 25 and 26, 1863, skirmish. River Turnpike, October 16, 1861— Skirmish, second New Jersey volunteers, Lieut. lan, on account of their good conduct in this | action, the same having been taken from them because of previous “mutinous conduct.” ‘The commanding general of the Army of the Poto- | mac (confederate) commended the conduct of Col. J. E. B. Stuart m general orders and Virginia cavalry of Stuart's command, Col. T. T. Munford, and the “Means Party, September 3, 1862—The Army of Northern Virginia (confederate) marched toward Lees- burg (Maryland campaign). recommended his promotion to the rank of brigadier general. Capt. Wm. E. Jones was | recommended for promotion to colonel aud Capt. Fitz Hugh Lee to the lieutenant coloneley of the first Virginia cavalry, | September 25, 1861—Skirmish near Lewins- | Ville, (Capt, Mott's battery, ‘throo companios nineteenth Indiana, four companies second Wisconsin, thirty-third New York infantry, company of Kentucky cavalry, third Vermont tember 4 and 7, 1862—The Army of North- ern Virginia crossed the Potomac by the fords near Leesburg. September 14, 1862—Cavalry skirmish, September 16, 1862-Detachments second New York cavalry, ninth Pennsylvania cavalry, first New Jersey cavalry and a section of Cap Baell’s artillery, under command of Lieut. Co! Kilpatrick of the New York, advanced on Leesburg and found it occupied by 500 im- | agency of private detectives, Mesi H. | were unjustly locked up. A number of the | Wise and A-R. Allen, the Pinkerton agency, | then known as E. J. Allen, and detectives from other cities employed by the government, the | guard house was from time to time filed ' with | them and haste had to be made in the examina- tion of suspects to prevent an overflow. With this claos of casos Ut was the custom, when suficient number had been corraled to make a parade, to send chem out of the city. PLACARDED AND SENT AWAY. The custom was at the appointed time to bring such prisoners from the cells into the office, then handcuff their hands behind their backs, place placards on their breast and back of the G: d in the pricoa, conti At the convention of mmaute men of “61, hel ‘on the White Lot Tuesd % Leury Bostony resident (at large), 0. C. Bosbyt n hia: first vice president, Gi thir cf ond vice president, A Vennsyivania; secretary and adjue . B.K. Pier, Milwaukee, Wis.; assistant seo ry, eastern department, F. A. Brown, Bos state be asked and rey that each ed that each «tate ol. Isaac M. Tucker, 1 man killed and’? miss-| sixth Maine, fifth Wisconsin, first California fantry, convalcscents and armed citizens in. | labeled'“Thief,” “Swindler,” “Robber,” “Beat, ct any one suspected | hold its vate men of ‘61 Sgr, no confederate epoek, volunteers, Berdan’s sharpshooters, Philadel- eluded, and 200 cavalry. The tenth New York and with drum and fife playing the we: Greg rg 0 on Api hat being the date of the fret call Little River Turnpike, June 29, 1863—‘An | phia zouaves, seventy-niuth New York, sccond | charged through the town twice. a few sheils "parade them along Pe it of Pre-iden Affair” (Gettysburg campaign), FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, June 1, 1861—Company B, second United States cavalry, Lieut, Tompkins commanding, on scouting service, charged through the town upon riflemen, wheeled and met two detach- ments with a field piece, then turned again and cut their way through a third detachment in the rear; Union loss, 6; confederate loss, 20. Capt. Marr, commanding the Warrenton Rifles, was killed. Lieut, Col. (afterward general) R. §. Ewell, C. S. A., was wounded in the shoulder. July 17, 1861, occupied by U.S. forces under Brig. Gen. McDowell, and Fairfax station (com- mencement Bull Run campaign), occupied by second brigade, third division, Col. 0. B. Will- 1's positio’ vs a military guard at . aarded which provided, mber of civilian turnkeys, cooks and other employes, enue and sometimes on other stree ing them near the curb that they might be seen tothe B. and 0. depot (the the only one when they were placed on trains, and with th admonition if caught again they would be more severely dealt with, they were sent off. THE PROVOST MARSMAL’S OFFICE. The central guard house was more or less a military prison for several years, although for tate and other prisoners the Prescott House, a double three-storied bri oceupied by the Gibs s. g (southeast corner of Pennsylvania avenue and | 13th street), was taken into service. Here the provost marsh.l's office was established and | there are many living who spent a few days or | Weeks as prisoners in it, It was not always dis- graceful to have been a prisoner there, for were SOME PRISONERS, Among thote who spent some little timo in prison here were Senator Vance, Gos. Letcher, Mr. Barnes Compton, Nor was it @ prison en- for eome of the female « | in connection with assass | Linco e only susp encounters, which, apparently insignificant in | City and th ji cox, first Michigan infantry, commandin such was the condition of the public that a | one or the other of the prions. ¢ passengers temporarily detained. | Cox, firs! is Fy anding. : —_ ives ar ; themselves when compared with the great| Ths track in the front and rear of the train | July 17, 1861-Skirmish, = ‘ trifing misunderstanding or an indiscreet | ras held rel weer til Just Bs ore th battles, made up an aggregate loss in killed | was destroyed and two bridges wore burned. | October 16, 1861—Tho confederate army in ae isan gros ced hapcomiant, Tateol ame | Made. 07 nold and others in the and wounded of many thousands. The veteran| July 9, 1563—Accidental explosion of the Da t impriso ndeed, come knows that for one day of the “circumstance and pomp” there were months of fighting on hardtack and the gay and festive army bean. But it was not always thus with the old warriors. They, too, had their youthful day dreams of the ideal, until rebel shot and shell knocked such fancies out of their heads and gave them s taste of the real. In the begin- magazine at Fort Lyon, killing 20 and wound- ing 14 men. August 27-28, 1863—Mosby made a recon- naissance in the vicinity of Alexandria, cap- turing Col. Dalany, aide to Gov. Peirpont, and several horses, and burning the railroad bridge across Cameron's run, POHICK cHURCE. August 18, 1861—Skirmish at Pohick Church, front of Washington retired from Vienna and fell back with their whole command to Fairfax Court House. The Union troops took posses- sion of Vienna November 18, 1861—Ski. November 27, 1861—The first New York cav- airy, Capt. Wm. H. Boyd, made a reconnais-| y sance to the neighborhood of Fairfax Court | Pp! House and encountered confederate troops and after some skirmishing withdrew. CAMP CALIFORNIA O THE FAIRE Vermont, commanded by Brig. Gen, Wm. F. Smith, U.S. A. thirty-fifth y. White sur- teenth New York cavalry. October 8, 1863—Skirmish, were thrown over the place and the confeder- ates withdrew to the wooded hills beyond, The federals captured several hundred muskets and rifles, one 12-pounder howitz dint 2 wounded and 1 missing. October 1-2, 1862—Keconnaissance from Har- old pe dersonvillé notori Capitol_and was executed Novewber 10 1865. Before this there had been several executions, of the soldiery in the early days looked on the population of the District as disloyal, THE COLOR LIXE. Before the emancipation some of the slave- holders of Maryland made efforts to recapture their slaves who hed come into the District and ofttimes they and those who did the least in aiding them would find themselves sojourners at the Prescott. The colored race, who had not EXECUTION OF WIRZ. utes past 10 o'clock in the moruing,Capt. Heary Wirz of Andersonville prison notoriety was that the on hold its annual mertingsat the national encampment of the G. A. ath After th rt par mecting the participants . carrying in the line the a Kitles and of the Gere is city and the banner of the tts Association, ing year were elected ap ‘commander-in-chief, first vice ae al, is M. Cun: Dr. Francis Charles 5 proprietor of the on August 27 on board of a West Indias steamer at Liverpool on the charge of having forged the name of the Earl of Londesborough to bills for , was arraigned in the Mark borough street police court in London yestere day. Sai Tewis, the money lender, testified that ps de Ppl “ la fm ded by | hung on the scaffold in the old Capitol prison . ping of the war the “crack regiments” from | Va, about twelve miles from Alexandria, De-| December 24-25. 1861—Scout toward Fairfax per’s Ferry to Leesburg by Brig. Gen, Nathan | yet been e fpated, was not then regarded by cdigsoe “ +. | he had discounted the bila, i “4 House by Lieut. Henry Shickhardt and VIENNA. Kimball, T. bi . g | all the eople or soldiery with favor, but | Yard. Wirz w ied by a military @ommis- | *° " rs Doth the north and the sth, ‘ticularly | tachment first New York (Lincoln) cavalry, | Court y ones imball, U. 8. A., with his brigade, consisting — Y 4 > " ih soner's total debt amount £7 i a oo oon mn Gta Capt Wun HL Boyd. Pec erege dle Killed | Lieut Frossard of the thirty-first New York in- | June 17, 1861—A train on the Loudoun and | of the fourth Ohio tonics eae eetstinE | Nabors wehopied tn the ald’ abolition, coca of which oe . yrbonce' total debe ts to £75,400, appeared on the battlefields “dressed to kill” —and to be killed. The bright play-soldier uniforms, the gay zouaves and the bigh- landers, with their kilts and tartan plaid, looked pretty, but formed conspicuous targets for the bullets of the enemy, and thelr bril- Namt dress was soon disearded for the more serviceable United States uniform. We read of “booty and beauty” in connec- and 2 missing. (No confederate report.) October 3, 1861—Expedition of the twenty- sixth New York volunteers, Col. William H. Christian, for the purpose of capturing con- tederate cavalry. December 18, 1861—Reconnaissance under command of Col. A. A. McKnight, with the one hundred and fiftieth Pennsylvania in- fantry, first New Jersey cavalry, Capt. John P. Fowler, and two sections of artillery. fantry. 2 e September 2, 1862—Skirmish near Fairfax Court House. January 9, 1863—Skirmish. January 26-27, 1863—Skirmishes near Fairfax Court House and at Middleburg, Va,, between first New Jersey cavalry, Col. Percy Wyndham, and “Virginia cavalry,” Capt. John S. Mosby. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart ‘indorsed Mosby's report of the affair: “Respectfully for- warded as additional proof of the prowess, daring and efficiency of Mosby (without com- Hampshire railroad, carrying the first Ohio regiment under command of Col. A. McD. McCook, Gen. Robt. ©. Schenck, commanding the Ohio brigade to which the regiment belonged, was fired upon by two guns of Capt. Kemper's battery, supported by the first South Carolina volunteers, under command of Col Maxey Gregg. The federal treops left the train, returned the fire, threw out skirmishers thirty-second’ Pennsylvania, sixth U.S. cav- alry, Frank's battery of light 12-pounders and inch rifled pieces, Found no enemy at burg except sick and convalescents, who were captured and paroled, October 8, 1862—Reconnaissance from Con- yto Leesburg by the third Maine, keinan, without meeting an enemy. December i1, 1862—Occapied by federal troop: Gen. Geary. Angust 23, on the charges of 'y to injure the lives and health of per- under his charge. ‘The finding was nd the proceedings were approved by President Johnson on November 3, und Novem- ber 10, between 6 a.m. and 12 noon, fixed for the execution. ments regarded the capture of runaway slaves aud indeed the least unfriendly allusion to the negro asanact of treason. So extreme were some soldiers and civilians that in a public address President Lincoln was referred to as a traitor because he had not taken the ground of the 5} clerk. While this was ihe case with « few some referred to the President as more than human, and in one instance a fellow clerk with the one above referred to spoke of him as the brother A STATEMENT. Wirz made a statement before the execution in which he admitted that the prisoners had The Earl of Londesborough testified that though he was chairman of the Lyric Club he had nothing to do with the club's finances. The witness had signed two promissory notes for 4 towl of £7,600, on which money was raised along the rail ie ocak SeemberiS, 1884 Sktceatah bed iS hore ‘ hare seit is | been ill-treated but the fault was not his, but tion with war, but there was very little of| Fe} 24, 1862—Federal pickets were at-| mission) and his band of a dozen chosen spir- pg ti pesca pod se clas a rin inteey fi ris oavatcy beumiog fhe ae eben Taher, AWithecch ert some one having to suffer he had no hope of a | ¥¢re Sood imitas either for the victors on the fields of battle in | tacked at Lewis Chapel. its.” Col. Wyndham’s report of the affair dif- passenger car from the rest of the train and | Maj. Elijah V. Whi treme sentiments, though held by but few, it | eprieve. The arranjements for the execution *- —— cor the civil confict. The rights of property and | March 5, 1862—Skirmish between s detach-| fers materially from that made by Capt. | PDtdoned the federal troops, running to Alex- | _ February 14-16, 1863— White's cavalry attacks | can readily be appreciated that with a popula- | devolved on Capt. G. KR. Walbridge. and there | t® State how may Persons, as # general thing, were respected by | Poon ~cuene hep pera ‘acre mer, 9, 1969—Mooby’s midnight raid; Brig. | ria instead of retiring siowly and allowing | federal pickets on the Hillsboro’ road. tion in which numbers were allied by ties of | Were present detachments of the one hundred | pection » ra both sides. The victors at the First Bull Run, ae in many others of the battles, were in almost, Mf not quite, as bad @ condition as the van- qtished—and these wili be remembered by many of the citizens of Washington to their @ying days, as they streamed into this city, terribiy cut up, their bright uniforms covered with mad and blood And in the grand review on Pennsylvania avenue at the close of fhe war where were the “curled dariings of Society” aud the brilliant uniforms of the ball foom? The former had been transformed into gallant and victorious soldiers of the Union, and the latter had been doffed for the “blue” ef Uncle Sam. == ON THE ROAD FROM As the was-worn veterans passed in review @@ that occasion in their ragged uniforms, Confederate loss of 4. May 24, 1862—Attack on U. 8, pickets, January 9, 1862—Skirmish near Pohick ran. BALL'S CROSS ROADS. August 27-28, 1861—Skirmishes, BAILEY'S CORNERS (CROSS ROADS). August 28-30, 1861—Skirmish second Michi- gan infantry, Capt. Louis Dillman; third Michi- gan infantry, Maj. Stephen G. Champlin. One man killed. (No confederate report.) ACCOTINE BRIDGE. December 28, 1863—Partially destroyed by Gen. Fitz Lee, Surgeon J. B. Fontaine, Lieut. John Lee and detachment ten men from Stuart's command, CHAIN BRIDGE, 1861. AccoTINE. Gen. Stoughton, C. loss, 33. June 4, 1863—Skirmish on Lawyers’ road and at Frying Pan between detachment of conted- erates and federal pickets; casualties slight. June 27 (Gettysburg campaign), skirmish. July 28 to August 3, Mosby operated about Fi Court House and had a skirmish near Aldie, Ve., August 6, 1963, a number of federal sut- lers’ wagons were captured by confederate “guerrillas” and recaptured by the twelfth Il- linois cavalry. August 24, 1863, skirmish at Coyle’s Tavern; Fairfax station. sixteenth New York cavalry skirmished with Mosby; loss, 41 wounded. FAIRFAX STATION. March 9, 1862—Fairfax station occupied by Union forces. December 27-29, 1862—Confederate raid on Fairfax station and Dumfries, December 27; skirmishes at and necr Occoquan and at Fair- fax Court House, December 27 and 28, and skirmishes near Chantilly and Frying Pan, De- cember 29, The force employed in this raid consisted of select detachments from the bri- S. A, captured; federal {| tachment of the third Pennsyl the troops to regnin the train, as ordered by Gen. Schenck. ‘The engineer was ‘never seen or heard of more.” The federals retired and the confederates did not pursue, The federal loss was 21 killed, wounded and missing. Reported confederate loss, 6 killed. fuly 9, 1861—Skirmish, October 16, 1861—The confederate army in front of Washington retired from this place and fell back to Fairfax Court House, and the federal troops took possession of Vienna. November 26, 1861—Skirmish between de- ia cavalry, Capt. Bell, and detachment of the first North Carolina cavalry, under Col. Robert Kansom, £ Loss: Federal, 1 man killed, 6 wounded and taken prisoners; confederate, not known. December 3, 1861—A scouting party of 120 men of the third Pennsylvania cavalry, under command of Capt. Bell, encountered a force of confederate cavalry and infantry in a narrow esi beyond Vienna. Federal joss, 45 ‘‘miss- Fobrunry 22, Lange praia: of the fifth Pennsylvania cavalry to Vienna and Flint Hill, September 2, 1862—Skirmish, first Minne- sota volunteers; loss, 8. gades of Hampton, Fitz Lee and W. H. F. Lee, numbering about 1,800 men, and four pieves of Stuart’s horse artillery. Gen, Heintzelman in his report said: “Lieut. David H. Leche of the second Pennsylvania cavalry on the other side of the Occoquan made a gallant and determined charge with and behaved FLINT HILL, NEAR VIENNA, February 7, 1862—Expedition to Flint Hill and Hunter's Mills of the fifth Pennsylvania cavalry. February 19, 1863—Skirmish, March 16, 1863—Detachment 200 of the four- teenth Pennsylvania cavalry surround the town to capture “bushwhackers,” but found none, August 30 to September 2, 1563—Federal re- connaissances by the second brigade, first cav- alry division, Col. Thomas C, Devin, sixth New York cavalry, to Leesburg with the object of capturing Imboden, said to be &@ that place. No trace of Imboden was found, September 14, 1863—Potomuc Home Brignde, Maryland cavairy, skirmish with detachment | of White's “guerrillas.” and reported eaptur- | ing 2 commissioned officers and 9 men, with horses and equipments. April 19, 1864—Detachment second Massa- chusetts cavalry and party of confederates, supposed to be Mosby's men, attending a wed- ding, skirmish in the streets of Leesbur; Federal loss—1 killed and 30 wounded; conf erate loss not known, Ball's Bluff (near Leesburg), October 21, 1861—Engagement, in which Senator ‘Baker was killed. Poolesvillo, Md., was raided and captured December 14, 1862, by a detachment of the thirty-ffth Virginia cavalry battalion, under Maj. Elijah V. White, C. 8. A. Aldie, Va.—March 2, 1869, skirmish; June 17-28, 1863, skirmishes and actions; July 81, 1863, skirmishes. ‘Middleburg—June 17-19, 1863, action. consanguinity to families over the line that | 4nd ninety-ffth aud two hundred and four- there was friction and hard feeling, and some- ! teenth Pennsylvania regiments and of the ninth, trusted to the honest Amo: the hands of Property that fell into police at the time of Dr. Sanders’ arrest was a traveling bag, when opened, was found to contain s for £5 from the West Indies and Steamship Company for ® passage steamer Texan, out in the Mrs. Stanley, and a lady known as Mra. St by From | t fourteenth, eighteenth and Prescott House for | fourth Votoran hestrve Corpe sed jenty of tenants. Wirz was accom) to the scaifsid by spitol building at the south- | Fathers Wyets and Boyle and bore the ordeal of A streets vith | lotoning to the reading of the January 12, 1864—Party of six confederates of Gordon's brigade of Hampton's division cap- tured two citizens and a number of horses and were pursued by the Accotink home guard, who retook the prisoners and horses and two of the confederates. July 15, 1864,-Detachment attacked the home gum at One killed on each side. Carrying aloft their torn and tattered banners, thet wesee they lacked that was pleasing to the (eye we vende Op ime in that which appealed to the heart. These are the men whom the citi- Bens of Washington delight again to honor. During the feur year: cf the war hardiy 0 ee enn Get Lid not have its fight—battle, engagement action. affair, combat, skirmish, @all it what you will, and the “sacred soil” south of Washington and immediately contigu- us to the District of Columbia and Maryland bad more than its share of thes, and might well be called “the dark and bloody ground” of Virginia, In no theater of war was there more of these conflicts than in that part of Virgin’ between Washington aud Richmond November 28, 1862, action; Jane jon—November 2, 1862, action, Bnicker's Gap—November §, 1862, reconnais- Snicker’s Gap Ford (or Ferry)—July 18, 1964, Beyond Leesburg to and through Snicker’s ‘various other gaps and into the ven aon Soeieenk A b i s Hat minor Yung