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who saw them as well as myself, they laughed at my fears. Still, I had a premeditation that something would happen before morning.”
After dozing off in the house, the Union man was “awakened by a rough tap on the head with a pistol barrel,” he wrote. “I was instantly awake, and was amazed to find a soldier kneeling beside me who wore blue clothes, and who cocked his pistol at once and pressing the muzzle to my head ordered me to ‘be silent or he would blow a hole through me" The man with the gun told Private Sneden that Colonel Mosby wanted to see him.
“Mosby himself interrogated me at once,” he wrote. “Mosby was an undersized,
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