Custer now pushed on to Waynesboro' and finding Early intrenched there, immediately attacked him.
Swannanoa, one of the finest estates in Virginia, is on top of the mountain between Waynesboro and Afton.
He then drove on, but was overtaken, arrested, and lodged in jail at Waynesboro.
Waynesboro was at that time, as it is now, the county site of Burke county, a town of about 1000 inhabitants.
Kilpatrick had reached Waynesboro when he learned that the prisoners had been taken away.