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Title: Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Baylor, George, b. 1843
Subjects: Virginia cavalry. 12th regiment, 1862-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Virginia Cavalry 12th Company B
Publisher: Richmond, B. F. Johnson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d down the Valley1 will try and be on hand to furnish you an account of theirdoings. I am truly, yours, H. D. B. P. S.—Since the above was written information hasbeen received to the effect that the raid on the train causedthe greatest consternation in Winchester. Preparations wereat once made to evacuate the town, and a cavalry force of 200men was sent out in search of the audacious rebels. Berry-ville, Wades, and Summit Point w^ere visited by the cavalry,with the hope of finding our boys. But the birds had flown,and General White failed to trace the direction they hadtaken. The engine, after performing a variety of antics,came to a dead halt three miles from Winchester, and expiredfrom sheer exhaustion. H. D. B. The enemys account of this affair will be found in thefollowing telegrams and reports : Baltimore, August 24, 1862.Hon. P. H. Watson, Assistant Secretary of War:We have advices that yesterday at 4 P. M. a squadron•of the enemys cavalry stopped the passenger train between
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James C. Conklyn. 64 Bull Run to Bull Run. Harpers Ferry and Winchester, took the agent of Adamsexpress and all on board prisoners except two, who escaped,and burned the train and cut the telegraph wire. The com-mand of Lieutenant Milling, at Smithfield, a point west ofthe Winchester road, and on the route to Martinsburg, wascaptured during the evening. John W. Garrett, President. Winchester, Va., August 2t,, 1862.Major-General Pope: The railroad train from Harpers Ferry to this place wasfired into and burned this afternoon, the mail captured andtelegraph wire cut: a few soldiers coming here were taken.AVith what mounted force 1 can muster, I am trying to inter-cept the marauders. This may be nothing more than a raidof l)ushwhackers, or it may indicate movements of the enemydown the Valle)-. I give you the facts for whatever they areworth. Julius White, Winchester, Va., August 24, 1862.Major-General Pope : The railroad train from Harpers Ferr)- to this place wascaptured and burnt by a

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