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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ue of endurance is greatly brightened by a brilliant little exploit, of which our village was the scene on Sunday, the 22d. History will be replete with deeds of greater daring, but justice claims a record of the bravery displayed on this occasion. About four o'clock in the morning, a party of Yankees, numbering seventy-three in all, under command of Major Young (falsely representing himself to be a member of Sheridan's staff), passed around the town, and, avoiding the outer picket at Edinburg, dashed upon the reserve at an unguarded point, capturing sixteen men. Their recent successes rendering them very careless, they turned about and leisurely retraced their steps, but had not proceeded far when about twenty of our men, who were scattered through the country, were quickly called "to horse," and, commanded by their gallant leaders, Captain Granstaff and Lieutenant Moler, of the Twelfth Virginia, pursued the villains, and drove them into their breastworks at Strasburg, recapturi