St. Peter's or Horsehead? Is the Stage Route the Answer?

[SSlater]

Thanks for the cue, Laurie, I'm on. Mosby was in "his Confederacy" and he had called all his Troops to him _ they had been wintering on the Northern Neck - so his men were either with him or on the way to him, to get ready to do their thing. So, it next to impossible to have been Mosby.
However, the Rebs had just established a new NAVY PARTISAN GROUP in King George County, and it was their mission to move into Maryland and do as much damage as they were able. Their compensation was set on how much damage they were able. This Partisan Group seems to be the only available Rebs, of any size, or organization to mount a skirmish.
I would suspect that any troops to be assigned to "protect" the ex-slaves , would have been the "Walking Wounded", or the Veteran Corps, and would not have been a fearsome fighting unit. If the NAVY guys could have captured a few dozen ex-slaves -it would have been money in their pocket.
I was going to write this up for The Courier, but decided it wasn't Lincoln Related enough, to put in the Courier.