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of the Shenandoah and on to Cedarville, where Kenly gallantly but vainly attempted to check the flight. On came Jackson’s galloping horsemen, down the road and through the fields, leaping fences and firing to the tune of the Rebel Yell.
Escape was impossible. Six hundred Federals and a whole section of artillery were captured by only 250 Virginia cavalrymen, who had charged so impetuously and so opportunely that their number was reported to Banks as 3,000. Col. Kenly’s surrendered sword was later presented to the Confederate Museum in Richmond.
Belle Boyd, renowned Southern spy, sometimes used Front Royal as her base of operations. Just before the battle, she was visiting her aunt, then proprietress of the Strickler Hotel. The cottages behind the hotel were Col. Kenly’s headquarters, and Belle hid in a closet there, listened while the Federals planned an attackon Jackson, and then slipped out to carry her information through the enemy pickets to Jackson.
Mosby’s Rangers added much to the fame of Warren County, for it was here that the Mosby-Sheridan filed originated and reached its boiling point.
Some of the Rangers attacked what they thought was a Federal foraging party near Front Royal. It turned out to be the whole of Sheridan’s cavalry, and in cutting their way out of the desperate situation, some of the Rangers fired at a Federal officer who had fallen from his horse.
The officer’s death so incensed Sheridan that he ordered Mosby and his band exterminated, and that the first “payment in kind” come through General Custer who, under the cruelest circumstances, executed six Rangers captured in battle. They were paraded through the streets of Front Royal with ropes around their necks and hanged upon the hill just north of town.
There was not a store or a business place left open in Front Royal at the end of the war, but with energy, courage, and resourcefulness, her impoverished citizens counteracted the worst that Reconstruction had to offer them. Agricultural, industrial and cultural forces : united to build the modern city of today.
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