The dash on Moorefield.
--The dash of McNeill into Moorefield, Hardy county, last week, resulted in the following list of captures:11 wagons, 72 horses, 183 stand of arms, 10,000 rounds of cartridges, 57 splendid revolvers, (best Yankee pattern and make,) 27 sabres, 112 cartridge-boxes, 100 bayonet scabbards, 20 cavalry saddles, 2 drums and set of heads, together with all their camp equipage, and last, but not least by any means, 147 "live Yankees," (Western Virginia Yankees,) including 8 officers.
It will be seen from the following order captured in the Yankee camp, that arrangements had been made to surprise McNeill:
Headquarters 1st brigade,
--It has been reported to these headquarters that a party of the enemy (numbers unknown) is encamped on the South Fork, four or five miles from Moorefield. A party of infantry,* under Capt. Fitzgerald, 23d Ill., will start from this point at 9 o'clock this P. M., intending to arrive at the camp of the enemy at daylight, and, if possible, effect a surprise and capture. The Colonel commanding directs that you send, to-night, Capt. Barr's company of cavalry and a company of infantry from your command, with instructions to move on the reported camp of the enemy — to arrive at daylight, and to act in concert with the force moving from this point.-- Take every precaution to prevent accident, and have your detail move promptly, so as to operate with the other.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant, Henry I. Johnson, A. A. A. G.
Major E. W. Stephens, Jr.,
Commanding forces, Moorefield, Va.
Numbering 125 or 150.
Your obedient servant, Henry I. Johnson, A. A. A. G.
Major E. W. Stephens, Jr.,
Commanding forces, Moorefield, Va.
Numbering 125 or 150.
