Report of Maj.
George F. McCabe, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
LIEUTENANT: I have
the honor to report that the party who made the attack on the detachment Thirteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry yesterday, 9th March, 1864, consisted of 40 men, under
command of Mosby in person. I came up to him at Buckland Mills about 3.30 p.m.
yesterday, and at once charged him. His command broke when I was a pistol-shot
from him. I continued after him and ran his party through Thoroughfare Gap and
on to his camp at Plains Station on the Manassas Gap road. I found his command
encamped at that place in Sibley and shelter tents. He got his whole command in
line, dismounted, behind a stone fence at that place, and I did not have men
enough to attack him in his camp. I drove him so hard yesterday as to compel
him to release 2 men he had captured, and they cut off their overcoats and
blankets from their saddles so as to be lighter mounted, that they could get
away. I do not think that there are more than 100 men in the camp at Plains
Station, but I believe he can raise 500 men in a very short time. There would
be no trouble to hem his camp in by parties going from Warrenton and this place.
Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen., Second Div., Fifth Army Corps.
Respectfully
forwarded.
This party was sent
out to re-enforce one sent from Bristoe, which was being roughly handled.
Respectfully
forwarded for the information of the major-general commanding Army of the
Potomac.
ADDENDA.1
1 From the return of Second Brigade, Second
Division, Cavalry Corps, for March, 1864
SOURCE: The
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 33(Serial No. 60), p. 236-7
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