. A history of the Laurel brigade, originally the Ashby cavalry of the Army of northern Virginia and Chew's battery . rticularly to thelatter, who were taken many of them without overcoats andonly partly clad. The frozen feet and hands of quite anumber necessitated amputation. Genl. Robert E. Lee reports to the Secretary of War asfollows: Headquarters, January 15th, Early reports that Rosser, at the head of 300 men,surprised and captured the garrison at Beverly, Randolphcounty, on the nth instant, killing and wounding a consider-able number and taking 580 prisoners. His loss light
. A history of the Laurel brigade, originally the Ashby cavalry of the Army of northern Virginia and Chew's battery . rticularly to thelatter, who were taken many of them without overcoats andonly partly clad. The frozen feet and hands of quite anumber necessitated amputation. Genl. Robert E. Lee reports to the Secretary of War asfollows: Headquarters, January 15th, Early reports that Rosser, at the head of 300 men,surprised and captured the garrison at Beverly, Randolphcounty, on the nth instant, killing and wounding a consider-able number and taking 580 prisoners. His loss light. R. E. Hon. J. A. Seddon. 340 A History of the Laurel Brigade The irony of fate is strikingly illustrated in an incidentconnected with the affair at Beverly. Fontaine Hite, a private of Company D, known as theClarke Company, of the Sixth Virginia Cavalry, beingwithout a horse, followed the expedition all the way onfoot, with the hope of capturing a mount for himself fromthe Federals at Beverly. He was killed while entering thedoor of a tent, the only Confederate reported to have beenkilled in the ii* CHAPTER XIII February, 1865 The capture of the Federal Major-Generals Crook and Kelly, in theCity of Cumberland by McNeil—The capture proposed and plannedby John B. Fay, formerly of Company F, Seventh Virginia Cavalry,but at the time a member of McNeils partisan company—Fay withRitchie Hallar reconnoiters in the neighborhood of Cumberland—They locate the sleeping apartments of each of the generals, andthe outpost and reserve pickets—The hazards of the undertaking—The surprise and capture—Two future Presidents of the UnitedStates narrowly escape—A future judge not so fortunate—Federalspursue but give it up—Prisoners transported to Dixie. While this chapter is something of a digression, it con-tains an interesting item of history which, though it cannotproperly be claimed as belonging exclusively to the LaurelBrigade, can be claimed in large part by
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