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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
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 ng to their number twenty-five Yankees and as many horses. We have since learned that they fled most precipitately to Winchester, doubtless imagining that the "Saviour of the Valley" was after them with his whole division. The valiant little Major Young barely escaped captured. His horse was shot and he left hors du combat; but, with the characteristic meanness of a Yankee, he compelled one of his men to dismount and give him his horse, and thus succeeded in getting under shelter of his brea