. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book . in afence corner disarming one of his captors. He recognizedus, and shouted, Give them hell, boys! and w^e did. Therew^as no halt or hesitation among our men. It seemed thateach one was trying to be foremost. Lieutenant Holcombe,wdio was commanding the Yankee detachment, tried to rallyhis men, and at last, in very desperation, planted his horseacross the roa
. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book . in afence corner disarming one of his captors. He recognizedus, and shouted, Give them hell, boys! and w^e did. Therew^as no halt or hesitation among our men. It seemed thateach one was trying to be foremost. Lieutenant Holcombe,wdio was commanding the Yankee detachment, tried to rallyhis men, and at last, in very desperation, planted his horseacross the road to stop them, but they deserted him, and soonour boys, with well-directed shots from their pistols, rolledhim and his horse on the ground. It was about this point inthe melee that our gallant comrade, Charles Broadway Rouss,who was always in the forefront in a fight, as he is in businessto-day, bulged into a Federal trooper, knocking him and hishorse down; but the shock threw his horse also, and the boldrider landed about fifteen feet off in a fence corner. But thenet spot-cash vigor and nerve was in him then as now, and,mounting again, he was soon among the foremost in thepursuit, which continued for three miles or more. In this. A. H. Aisquith and L. L. Sadler. 2/o Bull Run to Bull Run. engagement we killed and wounded 17, captured 35 prisonersand 2)7 horses and equipments. On the next morning General Tibbitts reports as follows toGeneral Sheridan: Headquarters Second Cavalry Division, December 7, William Russell, Assistant Adjutant-General of Cavalry:Major,—Yesterday morning a detachment of 50 men ofthe,Twenty-first New York Cavalry, under Lieutenant Hol-combe, was sent to patrol the country in the vicinity ofMorgans and Howellsville fords of the Shenandoah, withorders to return via Millwood. Full instructions were givento Lieutenant Holcombe, and he was cautioned to be con-stantly on the alert and ready for an attack. It appears fromthe statement of an office
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