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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.