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	John S. Mosby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), also known as the "Gray Ghost," was a Confederate partisan ranger (guerrilla fighter) in the American Civil War.
		Mosby spoke out against secession, but joined the Confederate army as a private at the outbreak of the war and initially served in William "Grumble" Jones's Washington Mounted Rifles.
		Mosby is famous for carrying out a daring raid far inside Union lines at the Fairfax County courthouse in March 1863, where his men captured three high ranking Union officers, including Brig.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Mosby (1127 words)

	John Singleton Mosby - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHN SINGLETON MOSBY (1833-), American soldier, was born in Edgemont, Powhatan county, Virginia, on the 6th of December 1833.
		He graduated at the university of Virginia in 1852, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and practised law in Bristol, Washington county, Virginia, until the beginning of the Civil War, when he joined the cause of the South.
		In the North he was regarded as a guerilla who disregarded the rules of war, and in the autumn of 1864, Sheridan, acting under orders from Grant, shot and hanged seven of Mosby's men without trial; in November Mosby retaliated by hanging seven of Custer's cavalrymen.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Singleton_Mosby (358 words)

	PPTC 100: The John Singleton Mosby Heritage Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Mosby Heritage Area was formed in 1995 to increase awareness of the historic, cultural and natural qualities of a unique part of Northern Virginia.
		John Singleton Mosby, C.S.A. has been claimed to have prevented a Union victory in the summer or fall of 1864 as the leader of the Civil War's most successful guerrilla command.
		Colonel Mosby was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost of the Confederacy" because of his frequent and sudden damaging raids upon the Union (northern) troops and their supply trains in this area during the Civil War of 1861 - 1865.
	www.bikepptc.org /web_final/mosby.htm (494 words)

	John Mosby
		Mosby became an expert in guerrilla warfare tactics and his small unit of a hundred soldiers were very active during the Union Army during the Wilderness campaign.
		Mosby served as U.S. consul at Hong Kong (1878-1885) and assistant attorney in the Justice Department (1904-10).
		Mosby has annoyed me considerably; but the people are beginning to see that he does not injure me a great deal, but causes a loss to them of all that they have spent their lives in accumulating.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWmosby.htm (4940 words)

	American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open warfare in Kansas Territory, the Dred Scott decision of 1857, John Brown’s raid in 1859 and the split in the Democratic Party in 1860 polarized the nation between North and South.
		The fall of Atlanta, on September 2, 1864, was a significant factor in the re-election of Lincoln as president.
		Union general John M. Schofield defeated Hood at the Battle of Franklin, and George H. Thomas dealt Hood a massive defeat at the Battle of Nashville, effectively destroying Hood’s army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Civil_War (10265 words)

	Mosby, John Singleton - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON [Mosby, John Singleton], 1833-1916, Confederate partisan leader in the American Civil War, b.
		Perhaps Mosby's most famous exploit was the capture of a Union general, caught asleep in his bed, at Fairfax Courthouse in Mar., 1863.
		Mosby secured his parole only through the intercession of Ulysses S. Grant, of whom he became a great admirer.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mosby-j1o.html (388 words)

	Col., John Singleton Mosby
		John Singleton Mosby, son of Alfred Daniel Mosby, Son of John H.Mosby, son of Daniel Mosby, son of Poindexter Mosby, son of Benjamin Mosby, (Benjamin's brother John Mosby married Martha Womack, daughter of Abraham Womack, born 1644 sp Sarah Worsham?), son of Edward Mosby, sp Sarah Woodson, son of Edward Mosby.
		Mosby himself found such little satisfaction with his later years he once remarked: "I wish that life's descending shadows had fallen upon me in the midst of friends and scenes I loved best".
		Mosby himself found such little satisfaction with his later years he once remarked: "I wish that life's descending shadows had fallen upon me in the midst of friends and scenes I loved best" (Jones, p.309).
	www.womacknet.net /features/jsmosby/mosby.htm (3979 words)

	JOHN S. MOSBY SPIES, RAIDERS & PAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Supported by a fiercely loyal civilian population, Mosby and his guerrilla fighters blew up trains and bridges and harrassed General Philip Sheridan's supply lines so effectively that significant numbers of Union troops had to be diverted to guard against them.
		In turn, Mosby's Rangers helped with the planting and shared the spoils from their raids, allowing the "confederacy" to escape much of the hardships experienced by the rest of the South.
		Mosby also functioned as the principal enforcer of civil law, pursuing horse thieves, deserters, and destroying mountain stills (he felt they used up scarce grain).
	members.tripod.com /~beag27/jmosby.html (547 words)

	John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 - May 30, 1916), also known as the "Gray Ghost," was a Confederate guerilla fighter in the American Civil War.
		Mosby was born in Edgemont, Virginia, (in Powhatan County) and was baptised as a Methodist.
		Mosby was upset with the Virginia Volunteer's lack of congeniality and he again wrote to the Governor requesting to be transferred, but his request was not granted.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/mosby.html (635 words)

	John S. Mosby
		At the age of sixteen years he entered the university of Virginia, where his course of study was terminated by an unfortunate difficulty with a fellow student, in which the latter was wounded.
		Mosby was punished for this affair by imprisonment, but the attorney who had vigorously prosecuted him aided him during this confinement in the study of law, the profession which he subsequently followed at Bristol, Va..
		When Jones was transferred to another regiment, Mosby was invited by Stuart to remain with him as a scout, and, in this capacity, he made a reconnaissance prepatory to Stuart's famous Chickahominy raid, and as guide led that expedition.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/John_S_Mosby.htm (1004 words)

	The Gray Ghost - Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Singleton Mosby was born December 6, 1833 in Powhatan County, Virginia.
		Mosby was reassigned to JEB Stuart's staff as a scout.
		Mosby and his unit were so much of a nuisance to the Union that he was wanted for a reward of ten thousand dollars dead or alive.
	home.earthlink.net /~grghost/writings/papers/grayghost (624 words)

	Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby Gray Ghost George S. Patton Historical Society Library
		But Mosby was the type of man who is not content with the routine performance of duties, and this was illustrated early in his career as a soldier.
		Mosby was due at Mathematics lecture room and thither he went and met Professor Courtnay and did his problems first of all.
		Mosby.] We are suffering the most intense anxiety to hear the final result from Donelson,--if we are defeated there it will prolong the war, I fear, but the idea of giving up or abandoning the field now should never enter a Southern man's head.
	www.pattonhq.com /militaryworks/mosby.html (23287 words)

	Colonel John Singleton Mosby
		Born December 6, 1833 at 'Edgemont', Powhatan County, Virginia, John Singleton Mosby was the son of Alfred Daniel and Virginia Jackson (McLaurine) Mosby.
		During the trial, Mosby convinced the jury he had shot in self-defense and was sentenced to a $500 fine as well as one year in jail.
		Mosby married Pauline Mariah Clark on December 30, 1857 at Nashville, Tennessee.
	stuart-mosby.org /mosby.htm (663 words)

	Some Descendants of "Dr." John Woodson - pafg25.asp - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Mosby, Benjamin Mosby, Sarah Woodson, Robert, John) was born in 1785.
		Mosby, Littleberry C. Mosby, Benjamin Mosby, Sarah Woodson, Robert, John) was born in 1804 in Powhatan Co., VA.
		Charles A. Mosby (Robert Claiborne Mosby, Nicholas Mosby, Hezekiah Mosby, Sarah Woodson, Robert, John) was born in 1822.
	www.juch.org /woodson/pafg25.asp (4328 words)

	John S. Mosby in the Shenandoah Valley
		Mosby lived in Nelson County, Va. until the age of six when his father moved to adjoining Albemarle County, four miles from Charlottesville and within viewing distance of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
		At first Mosby followed a local company of infantry, but quickly transfered to the cavalry corps of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, and became acquainted with the duties of a scout.
		Lincoln, upon hearing several of his generals discussing Mosby and their fears, loudly announced, "Listen to you men, you speak of Mosby as though he is a ghost, a gray ghost." It wasn't until after the war that Mosby learned of this and that the nickname stuck.
	www.angelfire.com /va3/valleywar/people/mosby.html (654 words)

	John Singleton Mosby, 1833-1916. "The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, ed. by Charles Wells Russel" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mosby's impatience of restraint was a so strongly marked characteristic that he always seemed unwilling to follow a plan of his own, after having disclosed it to another.
		Colonel Mosby realized that the account of the military operations at the Battle of Manassas included in the present volume is markedly at variance with the usual version.
		Colonel Mosby was almost the only Douglas Democrat in Bristol; that is to say he was in favor of recognizing the right of a territory belonging to the United States to vote against slavery within its borders.
	docsouth.unc.edu /mosby/mosby.html (20032 words)

	Southern Honor and Col. John Singleton Mosby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This project will argue that Mosby self-consciously created a persona that upheld the various characteristics that marked Southern honor -- a focus on outward appearance, a tendency toward revenge and violence, and an adherence to one's word -- an image the rest of the South was only too happy to accept and promote.
		Mosby's importance as a cultural object only can be truly understood in the context of the Southern code of honor's decline throughout the 19th century.
		The importance of Mosby as a representative of this lost "honorable" code of living has survived his historical and regional context.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~class/am483_97/Projects/anderson/intro.html (395 words)

	Confederate General John Mosby on Horseback - American Civil War - Wm. Britain Toy Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Known as “Mosby’s Rangers” and the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, this unit numbered no more than 100 to 200 men throughout its history, but its telling attacks against Union lines of communication forced his enemies to deploy troops in disproportionate numbers to protect their rear areas.
		Mosby and his partisan rangers captured an estimated 1,000 Federal soldiers, more than 1,500 horses, and large amounts of weapons and ammunition.
		Mosby’s most famous raid occurred on the night of March 8, 1863, when he led 29 men into the town of Fairfax Court House.
	www.treefrogtreasures.com /17488.shtml (255 words)

	Lt John Singleton Mosby
		Mosby was appointed Captain, Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS) on 15 March, and Major on 16 March 1863.
		2 Mosby became one of the most famous Confederates of the war because of his audacious and successful raids behind Federal lines for the the duration of the War.
		Mosby disbanded his Regiment after General Lee's surrender, rather than surrender the unit, and was arrested in January 1866.
	aotw.org /officers.php?officer_id=1074 (877 words)

	Classic TV Shows - Gray Ghost
		Gray Ghost is based on the true story of Major (later Colonel) John Singleton Mosby, a young lawyer who joined the Forty-Third Battalion of the First Virginia Cavalry and became the leader of a Confederate guerilla unit.
		Mosby was known for his cunning and stealth, which earned him the name "Gray Ghost." The show remained remarkably true to historical fact.
		The real John Singleton Mosby was born in 1833 in Powhatan County, Virginia and died on May 30, 1916 in Washington D.C. at the age of 82.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /tv/gray-ghost.htm (298 words)

	John Singleton Mosby Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A Virginian with a penchant for violence, Mosby had been practicing law at the outbreak of the war.
		George Custer executed six of Mosby's men in 1864, and the partisan chief retaliated with seven of Custer's.
		A note attached to one of the bodies stated that Mosby would treat all further captives as prisoners of war unless Custer committed some new act of cruelty.
	www.civilwarhome.com /mosbybio.htm (504 words)

	John Singleton Mosby by Edward Virginius Valentine
		Depending upon one’s sympathies, John Singleton Mosby was either a guerrilla or a cavalry hero.
		Placed under the command of General J. Stuart, Mosby fought with such distinction in the Peninsular Campaign and at Antietam that in 1863 he was authorized to organize a group of rangers.
		For the remainder of the war, Mosby harassed the Union forces throughout Northern Virginia and Maryland.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /cavalry_mosby.html (201 words)

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		Mosby attended the University of Virginia, however, having a propensity for violence, while there he was arrested and imprisoned for shooting a fellow student.
		Mosby's Rangers were so successful in northern Virginia that it infuriated the Union to the extent that General Ulysses S. Grant ordered that should Mosby be captured, he was to be hanged without the benefit of a trial.
		John Mosby was wounded seven times in the war, and is mentioned the most out of all the officers in reports and orders from General Robert E. Lee.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1179.html (539 words)

	John Mosby Bio
		By the close of the Civil War, John Mosby had become notorious as a raider and master of Guerrilla tactics.
		John Singleton Mosby, long notorious as a rebel guerrilla, was born in Virginia in 1832.
		He was wounded near this same place in August of that year, and was unable previous to January, 1864, to resume his official duties.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/John_S_Mosby_Bio.htm (333 words)

	Col. John S. Mosby Camp #1237 Col. John Singleton Mosby
		John Singleton Mosby was born December 6, 1833 at
		Quickly Mosby became the thorn in the side of the Union; his activities in northern Virginia let
		Mosby supported U.S. Grant's reelection to the U.S. Presidency and served as a U.S. Counsel in Hong Kong for seven years.
	www.mosbycamp.org /mosby.html (305 words)

	Amazon.com: Mosby's Rangers: Books: Jeffry D. Wert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Confederate cavalry leader John Mosby is among the most romantic characters in the Civil War, and with good reason.
		Mosby was captured once (and exchanged) and wounded several times, but continued to plan and personally lead guerrilla raids throughout the final two years of the war.
		One-More accurately it is a story about the UNIT with an emphasize on Mosby and while there are some elements that could be considered part of a biography on John Mosby that's not the whole purpose of this book.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671747452?v=glance (1821 words)

	Notes on stuart's Ride by Dave Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is a concept designed to give subordinates room to use their own initiative, and encourage flexible tactical thinking at lower command echelons.
		Stuart's official report doesn't mention Mosby, but circumstances indicate that he was likely the original author.
		A number of historians and Stuart partisans have essentially blamed Robertson-as the senior of the two-for failing to follow his @rders, or have blamed Lee for failing to use these two brigades effectively.
	www.gdg.org /Research/Authored%20Items/Powell/notes.htm (1345 words)

	Confederate guerrilla John S. Mosby's treasure
		Mosby began escorting the prisoners towards Culpepper Va. where they would eventually be turned over to Confederate General Jeb Stuard.
		Mosby was also concerned that he and his men were close to being identified by the Yankees and that he and Ames buried the treasure so as not to let it be re-captured.
		Mosby had been relatively nice to the prisoners captured by his men, but after that he hanged a few and placed a placard on one of the bodies saying that he would do so with ALL prisoners if the Yankees hanged any more of his men.
	www.treasurenet.com /f/index.php?topic=27325.msg182763 (3483 words)

	Mosby,John Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Acknowledged as one of the geniuses of the War Between the States, Mosby operated behind the Union Army lines, destroying supplies, taking prisoners and reeking havoc on the Federal Army of the Potomac.
		Mosby dominated a stretch of land that came to be known as "Mosby's Confederacy" and made life miserable for Union troops that dared enter his domain.
		This highly revised and updated atlas is the third edition of an essential reference in the field of hematology.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Mosby,John (665 words)

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