.--A New
Horse.--A Mulish Mule.--Kilpatrick's Colored Servants in
Trouble.--Terrific Hail-Storm.--Major E. F. Cooke Honored.
--Colonel Clarence Buel. 124

CHAPTER IX.

REBEL CHIEFS AND THEIR RAIDS.

1863.--Rebel Raids by Stuart, Imboden, and Fitz-Hugh Lee.--John
S. Mosby, Guerilla Chief.--His Character.--His Command.--
Daring and Plunder.--Aided by Citizens.--Condition of the
Country Favorable for their Depredations.--Our Picket Lines
too Light.--Attacks on Pickets at Herndon Station, Cub Run,
and Frying-Pan Church.--Miss Laura Ratcliffe, Mosby's
Informant.--Mosby at Fairfax Court House.--Capture of General
Stoughton.--Fight at Chantilly.--Mosby lauded by His Chiefs.
--Mosby beaten at Warrenton Junction.--Severely whipped at
Greenwich, where he loses a Howitzer captured from Colonel
Baker at Ball's Bluff. 143

CHAPTER X.

CHANCELLORSVILLE AND STONEMAN'S RAID.

1863.--Review of the Army by the President.--Deserters Punished.
--Sports and Pastimes.--Stoneman's First Move.--Storm.--
Reconnoissance to Warrenton.--Another Move.--Other Storms.
--Catching "Rabbits."--Stoneman's Great Raid on Lee's
Communications.--On the Virginia Central Railroad.--
Kilpatrick at Louisa Court House.--He Marches upon
Richmond.--Bold Advance near the City.--Important Captures.
--Retreat over Meadow Bridge.--Destructions.--Bushwhackers.
--Happy Rencounter.--Safe Arrival at Gloucester Point.--
Public Prints.--Battle of Chancellorsville.--Heroism and
Defeat.--Stonewall Jackson Falls.--Hooker Injured.--Retreat.
--Orders. 161

CHAPTER XI.

FROM YORKTOWN TO FALMOUTH.

1863.--Curiosity Satisfied.--Pastimes on the York River.
--Religious Services; their Influence.--Raid to Mathias
Court House.--Sickness and Recovery.--From Gloucester
Point to Falmouth.--Exciting Details.--Correspondence of
Mr. Young.--The Press.--With the Army of the Potomac
again.--Cavalry Fight at Brandy Station.--Bold Charge of
the First Maine Cavalry.--The Chivalry fairly Beaten.--
Death of Colonel B. F. Davis, Eighth New York Cavalry.--
Interesting Letter of a Rebel Chaplain.--Casualties.--
What was Gained by the Reconnoissance.--Pleasonton and
Kilpatrick Promoted.--Rebels Raiding in Maryland.