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thin visaged looking fellow, with a sickly looking yellow mustache. He wore a United States officer’s blue overcoat over a uniform of gray, had on fine silk stitched top boots.” After failing to learn much in questioning the Union private, Mosby remarked that “it would be an easy thing for him to hang me up to one of the trees in front of the house.”
When Private Sneden boldly replied that such an act would be cowardly, one of Mosby’s men whacked him over the eye with a pistol, opening a nasty wound.
At daybreak, the Union private and ten other captives were ordered to help Mosby’s men round up a large herd of Union mules, which the captives rode bareback in wester
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