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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)
e men, entangled by this simultaneous breakdown, are unable to extricate themselves, and become exposed in this defenceless condition to the fire of the Southerners, who take leisurely advantage of the success of their ambuscade. This exploit cost the Federals thirty-five men. A month later, on the 8th of March, Mosby signalized himself by a bold stroke of extraordinary audacity. The reader will probably remember that the Virginia attorney, having landed on the 4th of August, 1862, at Aiken's Landing, was the first to carry to Lee the news of Burnside's departure for Alexandria: he was then returning, after an exchange of prisoners, from the Northern prisons, where he had expiated, during two months, the crime of having once slept too soundly near the Federal outposts. Since then he had thought of nothing but to revenge himself for his mishap, and to catch in his turn some Unionists in flagrante delicto. But his victims must be officers of high rank; he determined to go in search o