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Title: Rebel Raider

Author: H. Beam Piper

Release Date: September 6, 2006 [EBook #19194]

Language: English

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Rebel Raider



by H. Beam Piper
It was almost midnight, on January 2, 1863, and the impromptu party at the Ratcliffe home was breaking
up. The guest of honor, General J. E. B. Stuart, felt that he was overstaying his welcomeтАФnot at the
Ratcliffe home, where everybody was soundly Confederate, but in Fairfax County, then occupied by the
Union Army.

About a week before, he had come raiding up from Culpepper with a strong force of cavalry, to spend a
merry Christmas in northern Virginia and give the enemy a busy if somewhat less than happy New
Year's. He had shot up outposts, run off horses from remount stations, plundered supply depots, burned