. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . had been serving at Stuartsheadquarters, who at that time commanded thecavalry corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. Theinfantry was used for picket duty along the river,and the cavalry was sent back to the rear where foragecould be more easily procured. There was a trucealong the lines, not formally agreed on by the com-manders of the two armies, but by the soldiers them-selves. No hostile shots were ever tired. The picketguards talked
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . had been serving at Stuartsheadquarters, who at that time commanded thecavalry corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. Theinfantry was used for picket duty along the river,and the cavalry was sent back to the rear where foragecould be more easily procured. There was a trucealong the lines, not formally agreed on by the com-manders of the two armies, but by the soldiers them-selves. No hostile shots were ever tired. The picketguards talked to each other across thestream in the most friendly manner andamused themselves in constructing smallboats or rafts out of pine bark, fittingthem up with a sail and sending themacross the river loaded with things ofwhich one side had plenty and theother was scarce. Coffee and toliacco were the articles of exchange, theNorthern soldiers being well suppliedwith the former and the Southern wdth the latter. General John I proposed to General Stuart to let me take a squad of eight or tenmen and go over in the counties on the Potomac to give the enemy some. 360 THE STORY OF employment for their cavalry in that region. During the hrst year of the warI was a private in the 1st Virginia Cavalry and had become pretty wellacquainted with the country. I had never been there before the war broke Avho was full of enterprise, readily consented. With this small detach-ment a lively war was kept up on the cavalry outposts in Fairfax. It wasmy halnt always to examine the prisoners we took separately and apart fromeach other. In this way I soon acquired a pretty accurate knowledge of thedistribution of tlie Northern forces in Fairfax. They were under commandof Brigadier-General Stoughton of Vermont, a young general, who was agraduate of West Point and had won some distinction under McClellan inthe preceding campaign. His cavalry chief was Colonel Percy English adventurer,
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