| From the Lynchburg Virginian |
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| September 22, 1864 |
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| The Raid into Orange County |
| The Examiner gives the following
additional particulars of the raiders who visited Rapid Ann bridge on
Monday. The raiding party was about 500 strong, and are the same with
whom Mosby has recently been fighting in the vicinity of Leesburg and
Alexandria. They came down through Culpeper, and on Monday morning
arrived at the Orange & Alexandria railroad bridge over the Rapid
Ann, which they attempted to destroy, but the timbers being green and
the structure but a mere trestlework, their success was not
commensurate with their efforts. The injury to the bridge is trifling,
it being only singed. |
| The raiders then crossed the Rapid Ann
into Orange and burnt Holliday's mill, near Rapid Ann station,
containing a large quantity of wheat belonging to the Orange &
Alexandria railroad company. They then started for Orange Court House,
but hade proceeded but about two miles when they were ambuscaded by
some of our infantry, who captured forty, killed fifteen, and drove
the rest helter skelter over the Rapid Ann and into Culpeper. In their
flight the frightened raiders turned loose a number of our horses and
mules which they had picked up at pasture in Culpeper. |
| This is the last of this raid. The raiders
are now making tracks for Alexandria. The only real damage done by
them was burning Holliday's mill and the wheat it contained. |
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