From the Richmond Whig, 9/29/1865, p. 3, c. 3

A CAVALRY CHASE. – Late Wednesday evening the citizens along Governor and Franklin streets, and other thoroughfares, were astonished by the appearance of four or five mounted cavalrymen, in hot pursuit of another, also mounted. Down the street they came at full speed, amid a great clatter of hoofs and sabres, and scattering of pedestrians, and dashed like an apparition out Franklin, the “solitary horseman” in the van keeping the advance pretty evenly. At Franklin street and the market, the foremost horseman wheeled, drew his sabre, and giving it a flourish over his head, darted away over the hill in style a la Mosby. After him went the squad, with sabres also drawn. That was the last seen of them by our informant. On inquiry into the cause of the flight and pursuit we were informed that the cavalryman in flight had shot one of his comrades, and that his pursuers were the mounted guard. We could not trace the report to a solution. Whether the guard caught the fugitive, or are still pursuing him, we are not told by the latest courier in.

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