Col. Ashby with 600 men routed a force of 1000 Yankees, the
other day, near Harper's Ferry. That is the cavalry again! The spies here
cannot inform the enemy of the movements of our mounted men, which are always
made with celerity.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 86
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