. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . breaking into line, charged the hill, and,without the loss of a single life, took eight hundred of theseinfantry. The Confederates then proceeded to destroy therailroad bridge, and gather as much as they coidd carry awayof the large supplies they found stored at that point. Rosser,encumbered with many hundred cattle and sheep, and a longtrain of captured stores, turned his column homeward. At Beverly, a village seventy-five miles west from Staun-ton, there were stored large supplies, guarded by a Federal gar-rison that did not exce
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . breaking into line, charged the hill, and,without the loss of a single life, took eight hundred of theseinfantry. The Confederates then proceeded to destroy therailroad bridge, and gather as much as they coidd carry awayof the large supplies they found stored at that point. Rosser,encumbered with many hundred cattle and sheep, and a longtrain of captured stores, turned his column homeward. At Beverly, a village seventy-five miles west from Staun-ton, there were stored large supplies, guarded by a Federal gar-rison that did not exceed one thousand men. Rosser. learningof this fact, took three hundred men from the several brigadesand started before daylight from Swoopes Depot, on Janu-ary 10th. He spent that night, or a part of it, on a mountain-side, without fires. The snow was deep, and the weather bitterlycold. Before daylight on the morning of the 11th, he was ona hill west of Beverly, overlooking the garrison of Federalinfantry in their wooden huts on the plain below. The moon [
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