Show J I Iosby osby Failed to Capture Train Because of 01 Them While hue Waiting for Federal Sutton Wagons Confederate Rangers Met Mot With a Warm Reception Reception Luck Luck With Men In Blue Boston Col John S. S Mosby Moaby commander commander com corn mander of oC the Partisan Rangers fl who such dashing service In the southern southern south south- ern err cause fifty years ago Is living now In the city of Washington the tho Youths Youth's Companion states One of oC the really amusing Incidents that passed under his notice during the war be he I told not long ago In the summer of 1864 when whon Gen Phil Sheridan was In tu the valley of the Shenandoah ho found himself much harassed by Mosby who was continually cutting of off his supply I traIns An army cannot fi fight ht on an and Mosby knew It it- li if He also knew how flew with his force forc t to neutralize the strength of f an Sn army moro more than five times his number num num- ber bet for by rushing from point to point And sudden Budden attacks miles apart be kop kept 9 largo 9 proportion of ot Union troops In constant chaj cuu o pf pC hf bf One Ono bright morning Mosby rosby heard that a S long supply train was winding Its way down the valley By ily noon the rangers In their gray uniforms were gathered at the tho forks of the valley pike watching for the head of oC the wagon to appear Presently a cloud of dust was seen rising far tar up the road and as the Wind blew It aside the Confederates caught sIght pf of n a line of f men In hi blue bluD no I escorting a caravan of oC IU lumbering be g I wagons drawn by mules Instantly Mosby gave the tho order to run a n little howitzer up on the side of the hill hili oid ad unlimber It As soon as the gun had opened fire the rest of oC the men were to make a cavalry charge and throw the train Into confusion Th fb The rangers Jerked t tb gun position and began to swab It put Suddenly the man with the swab wa gave a shrill yell ell seized the seat of lC his pantaloons and fled ned down the hill an and out into the tho road Almost the same some moment the other man mon at the tho gun abandoned it He lie seemed to be fightIng fight fight- ing at the air as he disappeared over overa a stone wall The Tho Butlers Butlers' wagons were creeping perer end did not know what wha to think of such extraordinary con cony duct lIe He ordered four more men to ta the tho gun but hardly had they reached It when they too yelled began heat beat the air madly wIth their nits hats tl and nd took to flight Spurring his horse borse over ever the stone stonewall stonewall wall Mosby rode toward the gun but buthis buthis buthis his stay was short The howitzer stood t Just over a 3 hornets hornet's pest and those busy Insects were resenting the tha Intrusion They had bad repelled the invaders invaders in invaders in- in on foot and now they swarmed on Mosby's horse till the maddened animal tore off down the tho j e on a I run ron l Then en they turned their atten tion to the rest of the troop Their attack was so vIcious that I the tho rangers gave ga up any idea of oC standing stand stand- Ing by the gun They scattered fat and wide and It W was 9 an hour before they returned When they did th the tha wagon train had bad safely vanished In tho the distance So the tha hornets saved sa tho day for fc- sheridan herldan |