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Trains were derailed and looted, usually with sharp fighting. By mid-July, Mosby had been promoted to lieutenant colonel and had a total strength of around 300 men, divided into five companies. His younger brother, William Mosby, had joined him and was acting as his adjutant. He now had four guns, all twelve-pounders two howitzers, the Napoleon and a new rifle, presented to him by Jubal Early.
"Bring ... your ... men ... over ... carefully ... in ... extended ... order!" The words floated across on the wind. Feeling that he would like to see his men all safely across before he left any of them, the Subaltern motioned to the Sergeant to lead them, and they set off in a long, dotted and irregular line towards the thicket. "Hurry ... them ... up. Hurry!" shouted the Adjutant.
Captain Macklin comes of a distinguished family of soldiers, and he has himself been educated at West Point. I have appointed him Captain of D Troop and Adjutant of the Legion. As adjutant you will recognize his authority as you would my own. You will now break camp, and be prepared to march in half an hour."
From Second-Lieutenant P.C. Cornish-Bowden, 25th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. To The Adjutant, 25th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. Sir, I have the honour to report for the information of the Commanding Officer: 1. The journey was quiet. Most of the larger towns, where trouble was anticipated, were passed at night.
"I must beg, sir," said Hyde, hastily interrupting, and looking with intention towards the adjutant. "Yes, yes! I understand," said the colonel. "Leave us, Mr. Smallfield; I wish to speak to Sergeant Hyde alone." "You have my secret, Colonel Blythe," said Hyde, when the adjutant had left the room, "but I have your promise."
S. Babcock, Assistant Adjutant General of the Brigade, who has known this regiment since it was mustered into the service. He speaks of it in the highest terms. I also met Major John A. Logan, the Provost Marshal, and had a long interview with him.
We'll give you the sweepin's of the corps, and you can see what you can make of 'em." "All right," said Cottar. "It's better fun than loafin' about cantonments." "Rummy thing," said the adjutant, after Cottar had returned to his wilderness with twenty other devils worse than the first.
He is my prisoner, made by my sword and spear, while you, Mr Morton, were playing the adjutant at drills and parades, and you, Mr Poundtext, were warping the Scriptures into Erastianism. Take him unto you, nevertheless, and dispose of him as ye think meet.
Leonard to Mrs. Cranston, and two or three, each, of the missives of Mesdames Stone, Flight, and Darling to ladies at the cantonment. Mrs. Leonard's letter said that her husband, the adjutant, had been summoned by telegraph to General Sheridan's office in Chicago, and he expected to be gone a week.
After the battle, the Adjutant, Lieutenant Williamson, found in the orderly's desk a note in which he said he was sure he would be killed in the battle, and in which, also, he left directions as to the disposal of his effects and whom to write to. In General Price's command there was a Regiment or more of Indians commanded by Colonel Albert B. Pike.
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