The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

240 THE MAINE BUGLE.
dared. This knowledge accounts in a certain measure for tlic
respect shown property. Gradually the nerve tension of the
guilty relaxed and they began to show themselves. It was
rather ludicrous to look at some of those trying-to-be-calm persons
as they carried around that wish-I-hadn't looking face. The
tables were turned. The Yanks were there and the Confederate
army had left them to their fate.
I'^or a time the camp of the Fifth New York Cavalry was
in an oak grove just to the left of the pike at Milltown, and
comrades will remember that old mill-race just back of camp
where we used to go down to wash our clothes, but oftencr
to pull the shirt off over the head and search for that frolicsome
grey-back, and with what fiendish delight we listened to that
musical snap as a victim came in contact with two thumb nails.
I'^om this camp many long tedious rcconnoissances were made
on all the roads converging at Winchester. Romney, Moorfield,
White Sulphur Springs, Strasburg, Luray Valley and Louden
Valley came in for their share of attention by the cavalry regi-
ments belonging to Banks' command. The enemy's cavalry
were often met scouting the country to annoy the Yankee pick-
ets, capture small parties who chanced to venture outsitle of
our videttes and to get information from their friends on the
inside of our lines. At this stage of war citizens were at their
homes, a[)parently conducting their own business as in times of
peace, and were allowed to remain unmolested, guards being
furnished to protect their persons and property from the lawless
soldiers not imbued with the belief that conciliatory measures
were the best to adopt towards a rebellious people who, while
under the protecting folds of the National flag, were aiding the
enemy as far as possible by furnishing information. The
tmemy's cavalry were often met but nothing t^f a very serious
nature occurred. Bushwackers being troublesome, efforts were
made to catch them by sending out parties at night, who
searched their homes or localities where they were harbored,
but these expeditions were unsuccessful through the watchful-
ness of the numerous dogs at every farmhouse barking the