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| John Singleton Mosby |
| John Singleton Mosby was born December 6, 1833 at Edgemont, Powhatan County, Virginia, and was the son of Alfred Daniel and Virginia Jackson (McLaurine) Mosby. He opened a law practice at Bristol, Virginia and, in 1857, married Pauline Mariah Clark at Nashville, Tennessee. Mosby initially opposed succession, but would eventually go on to be one of the south’ s greatest warriors. He originally joined the Washington Mounted Rifles, and later became one of General J.E.B. Stuart's best scouts. While Stuart was setting up winter quarters near Fredericksburg in 1863, Mosby was in Northern Virginia conduction operations against Union troops. He was renown for stealing in and out of the dark of night, which earned him the nickname “The Gray Ghost“. Over the next few years, commanding the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, he became the bane of the Union. His activities in Northern Virginia resulted in General Ulysses S. Grant ordering him and his followers, when captured, hanged without trial. Mosby was highly commended by both J.E.B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee, mentioned more often than any other Southern officer in dispatches and reports. After the surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Colonel Mosby disbanded his Battalion and returned to Virginia where his family was waiting for him. His wife, Pauline, managed to obtain a handwritten note from General Ulysses S. Grant exemption Mosby from arrest. The Mosby family moved to Warrenton in 1865, where the former confederate ranger returned to the practice of law. In March,1876, Pauline gave birth to their eighth child and never recovered. She died in May and was followed into death by their newborn son. After his personal tragedies, he removed from Warrenton and never returned while living. He was appointed U.S. consul to Hong Kong by President Rutherford B. Hayes on the recommendation of Ulysses S. Grant. On May 15, 1916 at Garfield Hospital, Washington DC, Mosby died and on June 1, 1916, he was buried at Warrenton beside his beloved Pauline. |