A Bold Capture.—After marching about three miles from Tygart river, Colonel Savage of the Sixteenth Tennessee regiment, desiring to make a reconnoissance, sallied off from his regiment at least a quarter of a mile, and while alone he suddenly and unexpectedly came up to where a company of Yankee pickets were stationed. Both he and they were considerably surprised, but the gallant colonel, changing not a color in his countenance, in a bold and defiant manner, standing erect in his stirrups, looking in his rear and then quickly facing the pickets, exclaimed in a stentorian voice: ‘You rascals, if you don't ground arms and surrender immediately, my men shall surround you and shoot you to pieces in a minute.’ They did surrender and he made them prisoners. The company consisted of three commissioned, four non-commissioned officers and sixty privates. （Head's History Sixteenth Tennessee.)After the withdrawal of the troops from Sewell mountain, Donelson's brigade was sent to South Carolina and Anderson's remained with Loring until after Stonewall Jackson's winter campaign. On the 1st of January, 1862, Anderson's brigade moved from its encampment near Winchester, Va., in the direction of Bath, as part of the expedition commanded by Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Approaching Bath on the morning of the 4th, General Jackson directed Loring, commanding his advance, to move a regiment to the left along the mountain which commanded the town. Colonel Maney was directed to execute the order, and General Jackson reported that ‘it was undertaken with a patriotic enthusiasm which entitles the First Tennessee ’
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gone, the opportunity was lost and our plan discovered.’
During these operations Col. John H. Savage, of the Sixteenth Tennessee, with a guide, captured an entire company of Federal infantry with their arms and accouterments.
The Savannah, Ga., Republican published an account of Colonel Savage's bold action in a communication dated September 21, 1861:
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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