. 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 . and offered to take any of my menwho would go with him to the camp and bring out some fine horses. Ayoung man named Walter Frankland. who had just joined me. and was notmounted, volunteered to go on what was considered a perilous enterprise. Ofcourse I consented. The next day they started on foot, and after dark passedthe videttes and entered the camp where all were sleeping, except thedrowsy sentinels. Ames knew where the best horses wer
. 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 . and offered to take any of my menwho would go with him to the camp and bring out some fine horses. Ayoung man named Walter Frankland. who had just joined me. and was notmounted, volunteered to go on what was considered a perilous enterprise. Ofcourse I consented. The next day they started on foot, and after dark passedthe videttes and entered the camp where all were sleeping, except thedrowsy sentinels. Ames knew where the best horses were. He andFrankland selected two of the best, and rode out of the camp by the sentinel,who was walking his beat. They were not challenged. The guard thoughtit was only a patrol gf)ing out. On Ames return I resolved no longer to defer taking a higher Might thanany I had attempted, and which I had for some time been him I had learned that Brigadier-(ieneral Stoughtons headipiartershad been established at Fairfax Courthouse. On the afternoon of March H, ,my men collected at Aldie, a small village in Loudon County, on the Little. 05111 ZLU z UJ UJ 5 UJ o UJ O o AMERICAN HEROISM. 363 River turnpike that leads through Fairfax Courthouse, twenty-five miles distantto Alexandria. There had been a deep snow on the ground, but the weatherhad tui-ned warm and it was melting i-apidly. About three oclock p. m. Istarted down the pike with twenty-nine men; not one of them knew whatwas my objective point. They thought we were only going to make a raidon a picket post. Between us and Fairfax Courthouse, on the pike, were thecamps of Wyndhams ca\alry. and not far in their rear some infantry regi-ments. The cavalry picket line extended in a semicircle from Dronesvillenear the Potomac by Chantilly on the pike to Centreville. where severalthousand troops were also in camp. From the latter place was a cordon ofpickets to the railroad, which the Verniont lirigade was guarding
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