>> elijah white. >> elijah white. who at the same time is raising his own battalion of what will become the 35th battalion cavalry. he's going to get word that samuel means is recruiting a unionist cavalry unit in virginia. he's going to declare in the summer of 1862 his intention to, quote, whip sam means. and in august of 1862, he is going to get that opportunity. he gets word that samuel means is back in waterford. he is recruiting for his new unit amongst the unionists in waterford. he's there with, you know, a few recruits. he's got about 20 or so men in town with him. and so elijah white is going to make a sneak attack upon the loudoun rangers while they're still recruiting in waterford. early in the predawn hours of august 27th, they're going to start creeping across the fields and farms surrounding waterford. they're trying to avoid the roads, avoid any pickets that might be on watch. just as they're about to spring their trap, they're challenged by a union officer outside of the waterford baptist church. and

>> elijah white. >> none other than elijah white. so here in some of the opening shots of the gettysburg campaign, we have two men representing loudoun county, one loudoun born, one maryland, but adapted to loudoun county, on opposite sides of the battlefield. now, unfortunately for luther slater, unluckily, hey luck could be good and it could be bad. but luckily for luther slater -- >> wait a minute. now you turn it around. >> you're just going to give me a hard time. >> always. >> yeah. >> unlucky for luther his men will not put up the fight that they did back at the waterford church. they are scattered like leaves in the wind. these confederate veterans roll over them about 175 of them are captured and they're baggage is burned, luther escapes but this is effectively the end of his frontline service during the american civil war. now one of the reasons that i love this story is because just a few days later the confederate army is going to approach gettysburg for a second time and when they see guys in blue uniforms out along the

>> elijah white. >> none other than elijah white. here in some of the opening shots of the gettysburg campaign, we have two men representing loudoun county, one loudoun-born, one maryland but adopted to loudoun county, on opposite sides of the battlefield. now, unfortunately for luther slater, unluckily for luther slater, luck can be good and luck can be bad. unlikely -- >> oh. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. now you turn it around. >> you've been giving me a hard time all day. unluckily for luther, his men are not going to put up the kind of fight that they did back at the waterford baptist church. the 26th pennsylvania militia is effectively scattered like leaves in the wind. these confederate veterans roll over them, about 175 of them are captured. their baggage is burned. luther escapes, but this is effectively the end of his front line service during the american civil war. now, one of the reasons i love this story is because just a few days later, the confederate army is going to approach gettysburg for a second time. and when

so they plan on going back to elijah white. and with this point, daniel means are sing why are you going back. let's keep them from going back so the rangers actually plan basically mom arrested in two unions were going to treat you before you can go back. they said no, we give our word and we will go back those three weeks time so they leave early actually just ahead of the rangers, now they want to take them under arrest and elijah white, is near the upper bill area at this time and white was not in a good mood at the time and he said will you going to be treated just like other prisoners of war. just like those two men were taken to fort delaware. he said you going to go down to richmond. and they were sent to cancel under, known for ahead of that prison and several other political prisoners another and the like at castle thunder. >> you can tell is bad because it sounds like a place in a comic book. >> they are so lucky. >> it could've been shot in the face or something pretty. >> but this time the families are working toge