The long roll called us up very early, before daylight. We
turned out on double-quick time leaving camp on the run, out on the Winchester
Pike. When out a short distance came to a halt. After waiting a while, was
ordered to return to camp. Wondering what it meant. Later in the day we heard
that Mosby and his guerillas captured a train on the B. & O. R. R. between
Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry. The train was badly damaged, passengers robbed.
Mosby knows every road and path in this section.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 130
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