A correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following account of the capture of General Trimble and Staff:
The captors of the Rebel General Trimble at Gettysburg seem to have been overlooked by the prints. To Lieutenant Wm A. McDowell and Sergeant Gurnesy, of the 19th Pennsylvania cavalry belongs the honor of his capture. Lieutenant McDowell is Commissary of the regiment, and desiring to vary the routine of his official duties, proposed to Sergeant Gurnsey an expedition to the front to capture some “grey-back.” After finding nine they were informed that a Rebel officer was lying wounded in a house situated about three miles from Gettysburg and east of the Baltimore turnpike.
They immediately proceeded to the house and found General Trimble, who was lying in bed with his leg amputated below the knee, with Major Hall and Lieut. Grogan, of Trimble’s Staff, all of whom Lieut. McDowell paroled, subject to approval of Gen. Meade. On asking Trimble if he was connected with families of that name in Baltimore, he replied in the affirmative, and added, “I am from Quaker stock and have no business to be here fighting!” He wrote a note to Gen. Meade, alluding therein to certain relations of friendship which had formerly existed between them, and asking that an ambulance be sent for him. Gen. Meade promptly granted his request. remarking that Trimble and he, before the war, were friends.
Civilian & Telegraph, Cumberland, MD
