Stuart, Massow joined Mosby. How long he had stood there in mute appeal for sympathy and relief, I do not know--perhaps all night. A New Jersey Yankee now living in the area of Virginia known as "Mosby's Confederacy" during the Civil War, curator Kathleen Golden shares what she finds so interesting about John S. Mosbythe ranger, fugitive, friend of President Ulysses S. Grant, diplomat, and inspiration for a 1950s television showon his 180th birthday.Although I was surrounded by Revolutionary War history as a kid . He was still in search of adventure, however, and traveled to Italy in 1860 to join the forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi in the struggle to unify Italy. Leading two companies of rangers himself, Mosby sent two more companies under Captain Samuel Chapman into the Valley on September 2nd. He formed a group of his best fighters around the gun and prepared to make what amounted to a last stand. Just behind them were members of Mosbys Rangers, a cadre that caught Cabs eye. Even though she has lived in the state of Virginia longer than she lived in New Jersey, she still gets called a Yankeeaffectionately, she thinks. The meeting ended without an agreement. General Rosser erred here indicating ignorance of Mosby's tactics, as it has been tirelessly repeated that Mosby's men rejected the saber for the much more efficient six shot pistol. This also led to the recruitment of irregular soldiers into the Confederate army. He was soon granted a commission as a Major and assembled two companies of cavalry and eight of infantry called the Virginia Volunteers and took part in the first Battle of Bull Run. Robinson, John After an association of more than two eventful years I part from you with a just pride in the fame of your achievements and grateful recollections of your generous kindness to myself. Massow, however, was a firm believer in the effectiveness of a saber, and it remained his weapon of choice. He wasconnected with the wholesale drug firmof James Bailey & Son in Baltimore afterthe war. 4. As you succeed in your operations, your notoriety grows and the Union devotes additional troops to stopping you. Mosby was promoted to colonel dating from December 7th. The struggle ebbed and waned, but sheer numbers on the Union part and dwindling ammunition on the Rangers part soon tilted the fight in favor of the Northerners. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING VETERAN JOURNALISM - JOIN SOFREP+ Mosby greatly respected Lee but had no desire to surrender. Mosby-related sites abound in Virginia. two, one of which was the 43rd Battalion, the other being McNeill's Rangers. When it did, rangers entered the cars, killed a Federal officer, and confiscated personal valuables from the passengers. As the unit grew and gained notoriety, it eventually became Company A, 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, or Mosbys Rangers, in June 1863. The only difference is in the danger . for the war and elected 2nd Lt., Co. A by John S. Mosby at Rector's X-Roads, Fauquier Co. Inv. Constitution Avenue, NW On June 17, Mosby surrendered to Major General John Gregg in Lynchburg, Virginia. In recognition of his service, Hoskins was awarded the Crimea War Medal with clasps for Alma, Inkermann, and Sebastapol. Although I was surrounded by Revolutionary War history as a kid growing up in New Jersey, I much preferred the Civil War. 3. Southerners, however, viewed this as a betrayal to their cause, and Mosby was shunned by the people who formerly revered him. I must confess that his character as a soldier was more on the model of the Hebrew prophets than the Evangelist or the Baptist in whom he was so devout a believer. Mosby had agreed to a truce two days before, but not surrender. After the war, William Chapman became an Internal Revenue Service agenta Revenuer who ferreted out hidden, illegal alcohol stills. The first purpose was to take control over guerrilla warfare and decide who would and would not be able to use it. He was going home to meet the Savior whom he served and to meet the beloved wife whose presence could not but enhance the glory of heaven itself for him. In the ensuing firefight the Federals captured six rangers, but a Union officer was supposedly shot while down and trying to surrender. He was fond of alcoholic spirits and knew that stockpiles of corn and grains probably indicated a still was nearby. While recuperating, Sam fell in love with his future wife, Eliza Rebecca Miss Beck Elgin. Cab was quick-witted, but, seeing how angry I was, said nothing then. Served in the U.S.Department of Interior and Departmentof Justice. It was no uncommon thing for one of our men to gallop by a tree at full tilt, and put three bullets in its trunk in succession. Before he got to the gate Sam had already exhausted every barrel of his two pistols and drawn his sabre. In his memoirs, John Munson stated that if the objective was simply "to annoy the enemy," they succeeded. An officer of the StuartMosby Historical Society in Centreville, Va., Buckland has written several books and frequently delivers presentations focused on the men who rode with Mosby. He can be contacted at info@mosbymen.com. He wasknown to every man in the Command and to everybody in that country, as a fighter.. Sam was grievously wounded in the Grapewood Farm Fight in Auburn, Fauquier County, (where Hoskins had been mortally wounded) and paroled on the field by the victorious Union cavalry. Many farms in Northern Virginia had their own private, primitive distilleries. At wars end, when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, Mosbys men never surrendered, they disbanded and returned to their farms. According to Chapmans obituary in the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily, published September 7, 1929: General [Winfield Scott] Hancock, to whom Colonel Chapman surrendered his command, was so impressed by the spirit of the young Confederate that he wrote in his report that in healing the wounds of war and reuniting the country This young man will be valuable to the government. The prophecy was fulfilled in a life of devotion to the interests of the south without bitterness toward his former foes. But as I recalled how cruelly I had spurred him to the chase the evening before, how without a groan of protest he responded the best he could, and how patiently he had stood with me . . Since the close of the war, I have come to know Colonel Mosby personally and somewhat intimately. John Atkins was mortally wounded during the Rangers fight against the 8th Illinois Cavalry on October 29, 1864, near Upperville, Va. His last words were: I have come three thousand miles to fight for the Confederacy, but it is all over now. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING VETERAN JOURNALISM - JOIN SOFREP+ . Ignoring Earlys indifference, Mosby decided to stretch his resources to defend the Valley anyway, to vex and embarrass Sheridan andto prevent his advance into the interior of the state. Mosby was acting on his own; his best friend and mentor, Jeb Stuart, had been killed in action on May 12th, 1864. He fired six shots and emptied five saddles."[17]. . Rosser agreed with the Union that Mosby's men were not soldiers but glorified thievesand bad for morale, because his regular troops were jealous: [Mosby's men] are a nuisance and an evil to the service. The battalion never formally surrendered, but was disbanded on April 21, 1865, after Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House to Ulysses S. Grant but not before it had attempted to negotiate surrender with Major General Winfield S. Hancock in Millwood, Virginia. Those who were not captured or killed, scattered. . John Singleton Mosby will always be regarded as one of the Civil War's most famousperhaps infamousfigures, and though he doesn't quite reside in the war's pantheon alongside the likes of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant, he assuredly stands as an equal to military history's . Mosby often played up his exploits to gain attention in the press for his unit and to emphasize the fact that the 43rd Battalion was a legitimate military command within the command structure of the Confederate States of America's army. By the summer of 1864, Mosby and his men were disrupting the advance of the United States Army of the . The 43rd Battalion were partisans who melted into the civilian population when not on a raid, and at one point General Grant ordered several captured partisans hanged for being out of uniform. Attended Princeton University prior tothe war. It's been 150 years since Mosby formed the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, more popularly known as "Mosby's Rangers," but there are still many ways to explore Mosby's story. After the war he practicedlaw and was a judge on the SupremeBench of Baltimore for 22 years. Born in 1833 in Bishops Taskbrook, Warwickshire, Hoskins joined the British Armys 44th Foot as a lieutenant and in 1854 served in the Crimean War, where he took part in some of the fiercest fighting. Mosby was a small town lawyer who joined the Confederate Army when his home state of Virginia seceded from the Union, and who became GeneralJeb Stuart'sbest scout, earning himself both a command and the nickname "Gray Ghost." The raid began as a complete success and the Rangers were having a bit of a frolic as they ransacked the train looking for loot. [Photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889] Photograph. Ultimately Union troops found the mountainside hiding places of the cannons and made off with them. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.. As the Mosby tactics became better known, scouting parties from the Northern army began to develop an affection for the pistol, with increasing success I might add. The battalion was formed in June, 1863, with five companies, later increased to eight. 10. For the most part, Mosby and his forces operated out of an area that a horse could travel in a days hard riding, about 25 miles (40 km) in any direction from Middleburg. The indomitable and irrepressible Mosby is again in the saddle carrying destruction and consternation in his path. More impressive, roughly 2,000 men would ride in some capacity with Mosby at one time or another during the war. A small, intrepid mounted force could charge a much larger one, and with the terrorizing advantage of surprise, rout them. 8. He was acting under the authority of General Robert E. Lee, who had granted him permission to raise a company in January 1863 under the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862 in which the Confederate Congress authorized the formation of such units. Mosby twice offered his services to Early with little response. Both operated in Virginia and operated under normal military discipline. Hoskins threatened him with his saber and said, Surrender, you damn Yankee. The Union soldier replied, The hell I will, and shot Hoskins in the neck and back. Served in the 1st Maryland Infantryand 1st Maryland Cavalry before joiningMosby in 1864. Called the Vineyard Fight, this action prevented the 14th Pennsylvania from reinforcing Sheridans punitive cavalry campaign across the Blue Ridge. (Jeb) Stuart, then the cavalry commander of the Confederate army that soon became the Army of Northern Virginia. He was admitted to the insaneward at Bellevue Hospital in August. It is just as legitimate to fight an enemy in the rear as in the front. Not a particularly enthusiastic soldier when he enlisted as a private in 1861, John Singleton Mosby disliked routine army life. Death had no terror for him. one artillery company, comprising about 400 men. This proved useful to Confederate military raiding. consistently elude pursuit, the Rangers disrupted Union communications and If he has not yet won a Brigadier's wreath upon his collar, the people have placed upon his brow one far more enduring. and 10-11-63 raid on a wagon train west of Alexandria. Enjoying the cavalry, but bored with his job as regimental adjutant, Mosby resigned and became attached to the staff of Brig. awoke [and] saw my horse standing at my feet with his head bending over me. Between 12th and 14th Streets We both did this a good many times but, I believe, without bragging at the expense of truth, that we saw the back seams of the enemy's jackets oftener than they saw ours. Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, is said to have remarked, "I wish I had 100 men like Mosby.". A young Private in the Confederate Army, Willie Prentiss, is assigned to guard a remote river outpost during the American Civil War. Instead of surrendering, Mosby's command simply disbanded. 6. On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the 43rd Battalion's parent command, the Army of Northern Virginia. Each man had at least two horses and many men had several. By the time Mosby chose to disband rather than surrender the 43rd on April 21, 1865, nearly 800 men had been part of this elite unit. While being transported back to the South, he observed large amounts of Union troops under Ambrose Burnside from North Carolina on their way to reinforce the Army of the Potomac and John Pope in the Northern Virginia Campaign. They received mixed signals from General Winfield Scott Hancocks staff and rather than risk it, they instead just disbanded the unit. Served with the 1st MarylandCavalry before joining Mosbys Rangers. but the first of many raids with Mosby's men."[9]. Bottom: Mosby Heritage Area sign on Route 211 in Fauquier County, Virginia. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. In that clash, Mosby and about 150 men ambushed and then attacked a 300-man detachment of the 2nd Massachusetts and 16th New York Cavalry regiments. Worked for several years as theclerk of the Court of Common Pleas inBaltimore, and as a U.S. Army paymasterin 1888. Two Rangers went inside. Many local names were represented on the roster of the Chinquapin Rangers. Revolvers in the hands of Mosby's men were as effective in surprise engagements as a whole line of light ordnance in the hands of the enemy. That was [our] final ride together. After losing a sharp skirmish to the Scouts just west of Ashby Gap in the Blue Ridge on November 16th, Mosby sent two ranger companies under Captain Adolphus Dolly Richards to find and destroy the Scouts and their leader, Captain Richard Blazer. Ritter, Harrison Mosby assembled his men at Salem on April 21, and the command disbanded. Enlisted as a private in the Washington(Va.) Mounted Rifles on May 14, 1861. The 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, also known as Mosby's Rangers, Mosby's Raiders, or Mosby's Men, was a battalion of partisan cavalry in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Early the next morning, hearing reports of Federal troops near Berryville, Chapman approached the town from the southwest and met the 6th New York Cavalry regiment, a lead element of Sheridans force. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Uncle offuture Princeton football hero JohnPrentiss Poe Jr. Died October 11, 1891, in New York. Date Released He was just in front of mehe was generally in front of everybody in a fightat the gate. over the country, a band of thieves, stealing, pillaging, plundering and doing every manner of mischief and crime. Mosby was only 31 when the war ended, but was constantly harassed by occupying Union troops. During the negotiations, a ranger named Hern burst into the room and yelled to Mosby that Federal cavalry had set a trap and were hidden in the woods. Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, []. Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton who was captured in bed. As Massow passed Reed, the Union captain shot him in the back and out of the saddle. We did more than any other body of men to give the Colt pistol its great reputation, wrote Mosby. The roster of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, better known as Mosby's Rangers, eventually over the course of the last two years of the war contained over 1900 men, although at no time were there more than a fraction available for action. They hauled in 1,600 horses and mules, 230 beef cattle, 85 wagons and ambulances, and 1,200 captured, killed or wounded, including Union Brig. With orders from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to conduct total war to wipe out Confederate resistance in the Valley and burn crops and farms, Sheridan launched an offensive on August 9th. His brother, Robert, had preceded him to America and first served in Wheats Battalion (the famed Louisiana Tigers). This proved useful to Confederate military raiding. Years afterwards Cab confessed why he gave the false alarm. Louisa,known as Luly, is remembered forher book A Southern Girl in 61: TheWar-Time Memories of a ConfederateSenators Daughter. Lawrence, Orde Wingate, David Stirling, and Aaron Bank. Furious about what became known as the Berryville Wagon Train Raid, Sheridan dedicated an entire brigade to wagon train security, arming the soldiers with seven-shot Spencer repeating carbines. Younger Rangers called him Major, probably a combined result of youthful impertinence and an abiding respect for ones elders. Noted The mens treatment of their horses and the sentiment they shared about their horses, not as animals but as members of the unit was legendary. By the time of Mosby's death in 1916, the people of Virginia had softened their feelings towards him. The vision we have cherished for a free and independent country has vanished and that country is now the spoil of a conqueror. General Grant at one point reported that seventeen thousand of his men were engaged in keeping Mosby from attacking his weak points, and thus away from active service on the firing line. But Mosby fought on. Or they would simply "skedaddle", that is scatter to the four winds, and individually make their way back to the farms in Loudoun and Fauquier counties where they were welcomed, hidden, and succoured. Mosby placed a mountain howitzer he had taken with him on the raid at the top of a small rise on a road up which the Union cavalry would have to attack. Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. The Rangers preferred carrying multiple revolvers as their weapons of choice and believed that sabers were rattling nuisances. Mosby summed up his operations quite simply: My purpose was to weaken the armies invading Virginia, by harassing their rear to destroy supply trains, to break up the means of conveying intelligence, and thus isolating an army from its base, as well as its different corps from each other, to confuse their plans by capturing their dispatches, are the objects of partisan war. This sort of shooting left the enemy with a good many empty saddles after an engagement. The wound, though serious and painful, had a positive aspect. . mosby's rangers roster. The members of the battalion were referred to as soldiers, partisans, rangers, and guerillas. As John Henry Alexander noted in Mosbys Men: Pray dont make the mistake of assigning William Hibbs among the non-combatants. Though his title was merely in courtesy of his quasi office of quartermaster, no braver man followed Mosby. The method of operation involved executing small raids with up to 150 men (but usually 20 to 80) behind Union lines by entering the objective area undetected, quickly executing their mission, and then rapidly withdrawing, dispersing the troops among local Southern sympathizers, and melting into the countryside. I never knew, nor did I ever hear, of any man in our Command wearing a blue uniform under any circumstances . Post War: Mosby was only 31 when the war ended, but was constantly harassed by occupying Union troops. After Federal victories at Third Winchester and Fishers Hill, rangers again entered the Valley seeking ways to disrupt Sheridans lines of communication. Why Were These WWI Soldiers Executed by Their Own Country? An adolescent boy released from school for the day in Upperville just as Mosby's men were chasing Union troopers out of town "became so excited that he mounted a pony and joined in the chase with no weapon except his textbook. According to the memoirs of former partisan Munson, Mosby welcomed volunteers attracted by the glory of the fight and the allure of booty, and had an eye for intelligence, valor, resourcefulness, but "what Mosby liked best was youth. According to James J. Williamsons Mosbys Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-third Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, From Its Organization to the Surrender: We then pushed on up the river to reach the ford at Nolands Ferry [sic] before another detachment of Yankees, who were coming down the river, should get there. R. Roland Sergeant. "When I first saw this object in the mathematics collections in 2000, I was cataloguing protractors, devices for drawing Editor's note: Civil War technology is the topic of this weekend'ssymposium, and some of the sessions may surprise you, particularly African American History Curatorial Collective, 3 surprising facts about Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, The "Swamp Fox of Missouri" and his protractor. P.O. 2023 The SOFREP Media Group. Turmoil in Richmond: Joe Johnston, Jefferson Davis Command Alliance Was Doomed From the Start. They hold shooting contests, and trade tobacco for coffee. A few rangers carried other weapons, but Mosby favored pistols, especially 1860 Colt Army revolvers, because they provided close-combat firepower without being cumbersome. After the war, Sam was the chaplain of the African-American 4th Immune Regiment in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, became the superintendent of public schools in Virginias Allegheny County, and served as the deputy U.S. marshal for the Western District of Virginia in 1909. In this photograph, taken circa 1865, a clean-shaven Mosby stands in the center of a group of members of the 43 Battalion Virginia Cavalry. Soldiers: I have summoned you together for the last time. Joined Apr 20, 2012. Captured on January 4, 1865, along withJames Heiskell, and sent to Fort Warren. His troops were such a thorn in the Unions rear areas and supply trains that his area of operations became known as Mosbys Confederacy. They were masters at the art of guerrilla warfare, gather intelligence of the enemy, able to strike quickly in the rear of Union forces, and then able to melt away undetected from pursuing forces. Compton, Z.T. Mosbys Rangers and McNeills Rangers. Grant in his memoirs wrote about Mosby after the war and came away with a different perspective. In a bit of an interesting twist of fate, after the war, Mosby became a political ally and close confidant to President Ulysses S. Grant, his former enemy during the war and served as a consul to Hong Kong. About four miles into the Valley west of Ashbys Gap, Russells men attacked approximately 100 riders of the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Released on June 15, 1865. [18] Mosby tried out some small field artillery pieces, including a 12-pound (5.4kg) brass Napoleon,[19] but artillery proved to be too cumbersome for his fast hit-and-run tactics and not especially helpful in action. On April 21, twelve days after Lee's surrender, Mosby gathered his battalion at Salem in Fauquier County, Virginia, and read this farewell address to his men:[23]. These groups included Mosby's Rangers and McNeil's Rangers, a partisan ranger group fighting in the area of the South Branch Valley, in what is now West Virginia.11. It is difficult to evaluate the contribution of Mosby's raids to the overall Confederate war effort. Died January 1, 1922. But he often related the circumstance after the war. [21], Speed, surprise and shock were the true secret of the success of Mosby's command. Gen. J.E.B. By the summer of 1864, Mosby's battalion had grown to six cavalry companies and Once, while chasing a fleeing detachment of Union cavalry, Massow supposedly exclaimed, This is more fun than a fox hunt! On another occasion, when a group of Rangers had surreptitiously slipped into a stable containing Union horses with the intention of capturing them, Massow expressed his disgust by saying, much too loudly, This is not fighting, this is horse stealing! Between the chuckles and shock at his noisy outburst, the other Rangers were able to quiet him. Within a few years, Hoskins left the Army. Thompson, John D. One occurred on March 30th, 1865, when five rangers trapped two Federals at the Daniel Bonham farm about three miles west of Berryville. At the same time Yankee soldiers splashed across Jacob's Ford, the Gray Ghost gathered 125 troopers in Rectortown. Conrad, Charles partisan cavalry in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. In1904, he was recorded residing at theMaryland Line Confederate SoldiersHome in Baltimore. Early Service And Unit Beginning: Mosby was against secession from the Union, however when the war began, he enlisted in the Confederate infantry as a private, having decided that he couldnt turn against his home state. Hockman, Noah This organization began with a scouting assignment from Confederate Gen. J. E. B. Stuart in January 1863. 2nd Edition. Among the Battalion's youngest members was a 16-year-old Scottsville boy named Henry G. Harris. Support Veteran Journalism . Whether it was the family road trip toGettysburgor thestampalbum I had featuring all of the generals that got me hooked, I now consider myself very lucky to work among Civil War objects. Unique Boating Apparel and Accessories. Present on June - Dec. 1863 muster roll. Company A - Organized June 10, 1863, at Rector's Cross Roads, Company B - Organized October 1, 1863, at, Company C - Organized December 7, 1863, at Rectortown, Virginia, Company D - Organized March 28, 1864, at Paris, Virginia, Artillery Company - Organized July 4, 1864, at Paris, Virginia, Company F - Organized September 13, 1864, at Piedmont Station near, Company G - A reorganization of the Artillery Company, November 28, 1864, at Salem in, This page was last edited on 11 December 2022, at 09:05. The only difference is in the danger Mosby felt that "a small force moving with celerity and threatening many points on a line can neutralize a hundred times its own number. The sad task of leading the remainder of the command to Winchester, Va., to seek wartime paroles fell to Mosbys No. [24], Virginian newspapers were eager to carry articles about Mosby's Rangers. They also performed raids in Maryland.[6]. The partisan rangers job would gather intelligence and take supplies away from the Union army. He was promoted to captain in 1855 and returned to England that same year. The next day, April 21st, 1865, Colonel John Singleton Mosby disbanded his ranger battalion, but never officially surrendered. A New Jersey Yankee now living in the area of Virginia known as "Mosby's Confederacy" during the Civil War, curator Kathleen Golden shares what she finds so interesting about John S. Mosbythe ranger, fugitive, friend of President Ulysses S. Grant, diplomat, and inspiration for a 1950s television showon his 180th birthday. Proposing the idea of leading a band of riders to conduct guerrilla warfare in northern Virginia, Mosby convinced Stuart and Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee to authorize a company of rangers in January 1863. [citation needed]. On the other hand, Mosby's guerrilla operations were not highly regarded even within the Confederate Army. 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