Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — He Returned the Compliment [ARTICLE]

He Returned the Compliment

“One of the funniest incidents that happened under myobservation during the late war,” said Colonel Mosby, “occurred in a cavalry fight in the Shenandoah Valley along in 1864. In the midst of a sharp cavalry engagement with Sheridan’s men, in a charge near Berryville, there came crushing like a whirlwind into our lines a Yankee soldier on a big black horse. A score of men tried to stop horse and rider, but the old black’s blood was up and he went on clean through the lines before he was under control. The rider was sent to Libby Prison and we mustered the black charger into the Confederate service. A few days later we charged some of Custer’s men, and I’ll be if that old horse didn’t return the compliment by carrying a •reb' into the Federal lines and never came back.”— Washington Post.