{"id":6147,"date":"2016-02-28T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unclerickaudios.com\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2016-02-28T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:00:32","slug":"he-has-caught-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/2016\/02\/28\/he-has-caught-you\/","title":{"rendered":"He Has Caught You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, little buddies!
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\nYou may have heard of Col. John Mosby, the \u201cGray Ghost\u201d of the Civil War. Mosby was a Confederate cavalry officer whose small force of mounted raiders caused endless damage and confusion to the Union Army and repeatedly whipped much larger forces. Mosby relied on speed and stealth to win his battles. Another quality that served him well was boldness.
\nMosby often succeeded in his missions simply by doing things so very bold that they were unexpected by the enemy. He often caught the Yankees unprepared that way.
\nOne of his most famous raids involved the capture of a northern general, Edwin Stoughton. It happened on the night of March 8, 1863. Stoughton was asleep in a house in Union-occupied Fairfax, Virginia. Surrounded by camps of loyal northern soldiers, the last thing the General had worried about as he retired that evening was being captured in his bed. But thanks to Mosby\u2019s boldness, that\u2019s exactly what happened.
\nRain was turning the snow to muddy slush that night as Mosby\u2019s Raiders approached Fairfax through a gap in the Yankee lines where pickets had been pulled in because of the rain. It was thought that there was little danger of an attack in such horrible weather. Mosby\u2019s spies had alerted him to the location of the house where Stoughton was staying. He and his men rode daringly up to the house, seized the guard and made him take them to the general\u2019s bedroom.
\nWhen Mosby woke the sleeping man he asked, \u201cDo you know Mosby?\u201d Stoughton replied drowsily, \u201cYes\u2014have you caught him?\u201d
\n\u201cNo,\u201d Mosby replied. \u201cBut he has caught you.\u201d And that\u2019s how John Mosby captured a Yankee general without firing a shot.
\nSometimes it pays to be daring when we\u2019re trying to accomplish something that\u2019s hard to do. You\u2019ll get a lot farther by being bold than being timid.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to read the story of Mosby\u2019s capturing the Union general, it\u2019s in our audio “Mosby-Gray Ghost of the Confederacy and also one of the stories in Uncle Rick Reads Portraits of Integrity.<\/a>\u00a0See the samples!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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