. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . Blue dwelling. Theirhorses were in the stable, and their pickets were out as faras Pleasant Dale. When Colonel Dunning struck the Con-federate picket his command pushed forward until withinfull view of their quarters. As the Federal forces advanc-ed the enemy withdrew into the gap, cutting down timberand obstructing the only passage in all that country. Whenthe Federal troops opened on the Confederates they werepoorly armed
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . Blue dwelling. Theirhorses were in the stable, and their pickets were out as faras Pleasant Dale. When Colonel Dunning struck the Con-federate picket his command pushed forward until withinfull view of their quarters. As the Federal forces advanc-ed the enemy withdrew into the gap, cutting down timberand obstructing the only passage in all that country. Whenthe Federal troops opened on the Confederates they werepoorly armed, and as a matter of good sense retired fromtheir camp. As the road was blockaded in our front wecame back to the Blue home. Here we took breakfast, afterwhich Colonel Dunning ordered the Blue home, barn andsome other dwellings burned, which was anything but acredit to him or the command. After this we returnedto our camp at Eomney For the facts stated herein inregard to the Confederate forces the writer is indebted toCharles Vandiver, a member of Sheetzs company whowas present. The enemy lost one man killed, two horsesand two pieces of artillery S4 ELWOODS STORIES. CHAPTER IX UNDER GENERAL LANDER The attack on Blues gap enraged General Jackson. Hedetermined to attack our forces at Romney as quickly aspossible. He was afraid that Kelley and Banks wouldunite forces and march on Winchester by way of Martins-burg: this was the reason of his great haste in this wanted to strike one of these commands before theycould unite. On January 10th, 1862, General Lander took commandat Romney This was a day long remembered by theRinggold boys. Everything was put in order for a move;the infantry struck their tents, and the commissary storeswere loaded into wagons. Everything denoted a move ofthe entire command. General Lander kept the orderliesabout headquarters busy all day. Sometime in the after-noon a cavalry scout came in announcing that a heavyforce, under command of General Sto
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