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General orders
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These general orders from J. E. B. Stuart, dated March
12, 1863, praise Captain John Singleton Mosby for his
skill and daring, in particular the capture of Brigadier
General Edwin H. Stoughton and thirty of his men in Fairfax,
Virginia, in the early morning hours of March 8, 1863.
The Union forces stationed a few miles away were unaware
that Mosby and his men were in the vicinity; Stoughton,
who’s quarters were miles from his soldiers’s,
proved an easy target. He was awakened from his slumber
by Mosby and informed that he was now a prisoner of Mosby’s
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Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces
History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Lent by John Singleton Mosby
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