| Show lodd by bi ia tee N august 1862 tho the armies of ge general eral e lee ice and genera general pope confronted each other on tho the R a p p a h a enock river in virginia virgin la general leo IRO bed had determined to al at tack pipe and conceived a plan is its brilliant as it waa was during daring he ile purposed to leave one half halt of hie his army under longst longstreet rt in front of popo pope and throw the other half under jackson by a circuitous march to a point twenty one miles exactly between him and washington on august 24 1862 leo lee had 50 troops while pope could muster with renos corps corpis of Burnsl Burnst dos division and reynolds division of pennsylvania reserves about the same number but two days later popes army was in creased to 70 by the arrival of the orpa corps of fitz john porter and heltzel man in pur pursuance sunnee of his plan and to fa tato its execution a day or two before fore jackson started leo determined to throw hid his cavalry under tinder stuart twelve miles in popes rear al at cat lotts letts station a point on the lie railroad rall roid connecting pope with mill hia his capital at that place were encamped the rescue baggage ba gRigo and alid ammunition trains of pope a army there too vere ft ere his ills personal effects stuart cap aured a of officers and men a large 1 suin of money in a safe in one of tho the tenta tents and dispatches and other papers but the rain fell in such tor rents and tho the night was as so dirk thit I 1 et p A it wa was vacant it was not possible for stuart to d dam am ago age the railroad to any extent 0 or r to burn the railroad L adges or the acres of camp dagons that were there my command was in advance on that terrible rainy night I 1 was as riding alth the lieutenant commanding the platoon which formed the advance guird ft hen I 1 suddenly saw between the lathes of lightning a man run across acres the he road T 7 nucia the influence of the spur my iny boine in a single bound reached the man and under the influence of a pie pig tol held to hia his head ho be told me that he was a servant of general pope nho aho was as there with alth his he tents which he said were pitched in a clump of pines close by I 1 made him get up in front of one of and guide it squadron equa dron the troopers which I 1 detached from the leading in the tile pines regiment to the tents oi 01 reaching the spot I 1 quickly aur sur rounded th the e federal headquarters and I 1 die d Is tents of the seeing a light in on one e mounted and with one of my men en on it filled with sith a large but it was vas V as vacant number of papers showing where pome one had been recently writing there were also two glasses of toddy on the table A few fe day days thereafter I 1 captured a squadron of 0 the federal dragoons un der major thomas alite of the regu lar army whom I 1 had formerly known when a cadet ca det at west point the major said that he and lewie le ats marshall the latter being an aide de camp of pope and a nephew of gener al I 1 ee were in one of the tents that night and that he bad been working all day over his quarterma quartermaster ister papers and in vier of the fact as well ell as character of the trio tempestuous right he proposed to marshall that 1 they should take a drink the whisky whisk y aa was brought out con flatted the major sugar was put in glasses with the proper amount ot of wa ter to which a liberal allowance allou ance of whisky was added I 1 waa was just pouring the toddy from one glass to the other thinking how soon the situ situation atlen would be improved by swa swallowing loIng it when I 1 heird the nohe of horse hoofs hoots and the report of ono one or two pistol shots I 1 quickly put the glasses down saying IT bellee that la Is some of that d confederate cavelry eav alry at this point of the narrative the major paused and after looking around added I 1 gentlemen if you believe ins I 1 do not inon 1 now whether I 1 drank than toddy or not the reba bere on us so quick that marshall and I 1 lifted the side of the tent and rolled down don into a friendly ravine and remained there sli hering in the drench ing rain until they rode off it only remains to siy that alte ind marshall lid not drink the tod dips lies the mixed but that the rapidly disappeared down doun the throat of the two wet act confederates who aho found them |
