Mosby again at work.
On Friday last Major Mosby's command attacked the passenger train from Alexandria at or near Catlett's Station, in Prince William county. There were on board the train at the time quite a number of soldiers and civilians some two to three hundred of whom were captured. A shot from a small field piece was fired into the boiler of the locomotive, so disabling it as to prevent its further progress, when the train was captured and burned. Before he had succeeded in removing the prisoners and stores on the train Mosby was assailed by a heavy force of the enemy, supposed to be a brigade, and in consequence of his being overpowered, his men scattered, and the prisoners, most of them, escaped. He did not retire, however, until he had charged the Yankees twice and inflicted some injury upon them. The loss on our side is represented to have been very slight, but the number of killed and wounded we have not ascertained.
