Stuart. The publication of Virgil Carrington Jones' bookRanger Mosbyin 1944 led to renewed interest in the dashing cavalryman; in the 1950s came the television showThe Gray Ghost, which aired in syndication from 1957-1958. CHARLES EDWARDGROGAN,1st Lieutenant, Company D. Author McHenry Howard referred toGrogan as having as little sense of fearand danger as any man he had everseen. Captured at Gettysburg whileserving on Maj. Gen. Isaac Trimblesstaff and sent to the Johnsons IslandPOW camp in Ohio. Stuart, Massow joined Mosby. Mosby had agreed to a truce two days before, but not surrender. In his later years, he would weigh 450 pounds and be recognized in some newspapers as the largest man in Virginia. How long he had stood there in mute appeal for sympathy and relief, I do not know--perhaps all night. The second purpose was to promote the use of guerrilla warfare to help protect areas where there was little protection from the army. He survived but endured a long and difficult recovery that kept him from returning to Mosbys command. 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. Soldiers: I have summoned you together for the last time. supply lines. Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself. If he has not yet won a Brigadier's wreath upon his collar, the people have placed upon his brow one far more enduring. 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. In the Division of Armed Forces History here at the National Museum of American History, the collections related to John S. Mosby are my favorite. In retaliation for the wagon train raid, Sheridans cavalry burned barns, crops, and mills. The two soldiers who were shot survived to tell the gory tale. One particular set of brothersthe Chapmansstands out. Robert later became Maj. Gen. Arnold Elzeys aide-de-camp before returning to Ireland in 1864. The passengers were robbed but left unharmed, ushered away from their seats beside the damaged train, as the remainder of the assaulters set fire to the train cars. The 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, 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. As the Gray Ghost related in The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby: While we were helping the passengers to climb the steep bank, one of my men, Cab Maddux, who had been sent off as a vidette to watch the road, came dashing up and cried out that the Yankees were coming. Served as bailiff at the CourtHouse in Baltimore for more than 20years. The total tally for the 43rd Battalion by October 1864 was 1,600 horses and mules, 230 beef cattle, 85 wagons and ambulances, and 1,200 captured, killed or wounded, including Union Brig. Take no prisoners! Chapman yelled. One, John Atkins, crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Ireland to join Mosby. By the time of Mosby's death in 1916, the people of Virginia had softened their feelings towards him. At sunrise, Mosbys force struck just north of Berryville, Virginia. From this modest beginning whould grow on of the best know of all ranger commands. He Kathleen has previously blogged aboutWinchester the horse,Stubby the dog, and World War II heroAudie Murphy. Paid $630 between 7-1-63 and 2-1-64. In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. I made him a captain for it. Mosby twice offered his services to Early with little response. The rangers fired two cannon rounds, then charged into the unsuspecting Federal troops. Never wounded during the war, Chapman ironically received his first-ever gunshot at the hands of a tax-evading moonshiner. 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. Small, harassing raids continued in the Valley until October 14th when Mosby and approximately eighty rangers conducted the Greenback Raid near Duffields Station, about seven miles west of Harpers Ferry. Last edited on 11 December 2022, at 09:05, General Grant ordered several captured partisans hanged for being out of uniform, List of West Virginia Civil War Confederate units, "Prince George's County: Over 300 years of History: CIVIL WAR", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=43rd_Virginia_Cavalry_Battalion&oldid=1126802426. They operated from 1863 to 1865 south of the Potomac, behind the Union lines. After February 1864, the Confederate Congress revoked the authority of all partisan units, except for two, one of which was the 43rd Battalion, the other being McNeill's Rangers. The letters had been fromcorrespondence his grandmother hadconducted with those luminaries. One occurred on March 30th, 1865, when five rangers trapped two Federals at the Daniel Bonham farm about three miles west of Berryville. 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. As the fiery Covenanter rode on his predestined course the enemys ranks withered wherever he went. . As Massow passed Reed, the Union captain shot him in the back and out of the saddle. 11. The Partisan Ranger Act resulted in many Southerners believing that any of form of guerrilla warfare was now being approved. A Union trooper rode up on Hoskins. In a 1907 letter he wrote: I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slaverya soldier fights for his countryright or wronghe is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in and he added,The South was my country.. How did this actually affect armies? Figgins, Alphaeus
But the enemy came up in time to make it hot for our rear guard. The Union began hanging any of Mosbys men they captured. On November 7th, 1864, in Beemers Woods just west of Berryville, rangers hanged three of the Federals, shot two, while the other two escaped in the night. Hoskins died on June 2, 1863, and was buried in the Greenwich Presbyterian Churchs cemetery. ALEXANDERGIBSON CAREY,Private, Company E. Brother of Ranger James Carey. Hibbs unique ability to find forage paid personal dividends, too. He also said that after he got to the burning cars he made up for lost time. In 1899, he was appointed general of the army. 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. Washington, D.C. Email powered by MailChimp (Privacy Policy & Terms of Use). . The 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, 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.Noted for their lightning strike raids on Union targets and their ability to consistently elude pursuit, the Rangers disrupted Union communications and supply lines. 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. Of his purpose in raiding behind the Union lines, Mosby said: 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. The meeting ended without an agreement. Hibbs, however, developed a system whereby he could find the forage and collect it for the 43rd, locate the still and sample the goods to his hearts content, and then (only then) return to Mosby with the forage and report the still. partisan cavalry in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He disagreed with the practice of slavery and tried to explain his reasons for still fighting for the South. From Wikipedia: The Partisan Ranger Act allowed Davis to form a group of partisan rangers. 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. Reportedly a prosperous and well-knownarchitect in New York City afterthe war. Robinson, Vincent
One of the first to join Mosby after he began operations in Northern Virginia was William Hibbs. Sillman, John A.
Charging with a yell, then firing their Colt revolvers, Russell and the Rangers scattered most of the Federals. Even at that supreme moment in my life, when I had just stood on the brink of ruin and had barely escaped, I could not restrain a propensity to laugh. He was fond of alcoholic spirits and knew that stockpiles of corn and grains probably indicated a still was nearby. 6-10-63 in the 43rd Va. Cav. Kathleen Golden is an associate curator in the Division of Armed Forces History. 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]. Sort By: . Box 378 Red Hook, New York 12571 United States. Within a few years, Hoskins left the Army. Resigned hiscommission on April 23, 1862, andbecame a scout for Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Engraving reproduced from Major John Scott. Noted That day was the boys last at school, John Munson wrote in Reminiscences of a Mosby Guerrilla: [U]ntil the end of the war, he was one of the gamest and best soldiers Mosby had. Ulysses S. Grant but not before it had attempted to negotiate surrender with Sheridans advance into the Valley stalled. two, one of which was the 43rd Battalion, the other being McNeill's Rangers. He decided if the enemy insisted on pushing the Rangers, they would pay dearly for their aggressiveness. Leading two companies of rangers himself, Mosby sent two more companies under Captain Samuel Chapman into the Valley on September 2nd. More impressive, roughly 2,000 men would ride in some capacity with Mosby at one time or another during the war. A seventh captured ranger was executed later. Died July 8, 1869. for the war and elected 2nd Lt., Co. A by John S. Mosby at Rector's X-Roads, Fauquier Co. Inv. This would be the last day of study for Henry Cable Maddux . It is just as legitimate to fight an enemy in the rear as in the front. At least partially in retaliation for the recent ranger executions in Front Royal, Mosby, through a lottery process, identified seven Federal prisoners to be hanged. Feb 22, 2013 #19 Great conversation! Since the close of the war, I have come to know Colonel Mosby personally and somewhat intimately. The Virginia Yankees later fought Colonel White's men again, as well as cavalrymen under the command of Colonel John S. Mosby. 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. With Tod Andrews, Jean Willes, Willis Bouchey, Douglas Dick. Praesidus brings homage to the military watch tradition. In stubborn fights I have seen the men on both sides sit on their restless horses and re-load their pistols under a galling fire. 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. He died on May 30, 1916, Memorial Day, from complications from throat surgery and is buried in Warrenton, Virginia. 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. Civil War Links and Information] [Rosters of men who served Virginia from the lower Shenandoah Valley] ROSTER OF MOSBY'S 43rd BATTALION CAVALRY-- Mosby experimented with some small artillery pieces but quickly stopped their use as they were of little practicality for the type of lightning fast hit and run raids his forces were conducting. 4. Mosby, who, it must be noted, was not given his famous sobriquet The Gray Ghost until well after the war, was an intelligent, tough, audacious, and innovative leader. cf. 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 . You select the Union targets for your raids and decide which actions Mosby's . For his bravery under fire, Ferris was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When other correspondents were captured in the Rangers' raids, they were treated well and given liquor and cigars. Served in the U.S.Department of Interior and Departmentof Justice. In this vivid account of the famous command of John Singleton Mosby, Jeffry D. Wert explores the personality of this iron-willed commander and brilliant tactician and . Known as the "Gray Ghost," Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby, along with his partisan rangers, terrorized Federal units in northern Virginia from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865. The youngster looked down at his books and, without another thought, tossed them aside, leapt upon his horse hitched up outside the school, and joined the chase. Mosby proved his worth as a scout and intelligence collector during the Peninsula campaign in June 1862. He later scouted for Stuart during the Second Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg campaigns. While interrogating Sneden, Mosby "opened his blue cavalry overcoat, showing a Rebel uniform underneath."[12]. On November 26, 1863, the Army of the Potomac departed Culpeper County to initiate the Mine Run Campaign. Come along, Major! The Yankees at once transferred their shower baths from Cab to the Major, who showed his appreciation of the formers self-sacrifice by spluttering out to him that he was respectful all at once.. The Rangers preferred carrying multiple revolvers as their weapons of choice and believed that sabers were rattling nuisances. When Lee surrendered in 1865, Mosby and his men were leery of surrendering, fearing that the Union would hang them as spies. This was not a custom, however; someone generally ran to cover after the revolvers were emptied. No quarter! Their area of operations in Northern Virginia ranged from the Shenandoah Valley to the west, along the Potomac River all the way to Alexandria in the east, bounded on the south by the Rappahannock River, with most of his operations centered in or near Fauquier and Loudoun counties. Compiled from State of VA Reel 18 Warren
By the end of the war, its roster would number almost 2,000 men. Gen. George A. Custer ordered the burning of five Berryville-area properties including the home of Benjamin Morgan. With no formal surrender, however, Union Major General Winfield S. Hancock offered a reward of $2,000 for Mosby's capture, later raised to $5,000. Constitution Avenue, NW The Partisan Rangers had a big hand in bringing the 'Gray Ghost' plenty of glory. Silman, James L.
A few guerrillas equipped themselves with carbines captured from the Union, but "they were unhandy things to carry" and unsuited for fighting on horseback; indeed in the thick of a February 1865 fight the carbines' long barrels made them too unwieldy to fire, and they were used instead as clubs. Later, an Englishman named Charles Green who lived nearby in the small town of Greenwich, Va., found Hoskins and took him to his home. This meant that partisan rangers would have the same rules, supplies, and pay as the regular soldiers of the army, but they would be acting independently and were going to be detached from the rest of the army. JAMES MONROE HEISKELL, Private, Company C. Great-grandson of President JamesMonroe. Sheridan also acquired the scouting and counterguerrilla services of the 100-man Blazers Scouts under the command of Captain Richard Blazer. Engraving reproduced from Scott, p.210. With the Valley relatively secure, but infuriated by Mosbys raids, Sheridan unleashed his cavalry to wipe out the rangers east of the Blue Ridge. By June of 1862, Mosby was scouting for J.E.B. A small, intrepid mounted force could charge a much larger one, and with the terrorizing advantage of surprise, rout them. Cab had earned Hibbs ire, but his playful exuberance created an even bigger quandary for himself on October 14, 1864, during the famed Greenback Raid, when Mosbys men derailed a train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Jefferson County, W.Va., seizing $172,000 in paper currency from two Union army paymasters. John Singleton Mosby will always be regarded as one of the Civil Wars most famousperhaps infamousfigures, and though he doesnt quite reside in the wars pantheon alongside the likes of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant, he assuredly stands as an equal to military historys unconventional warfare legends such as Robert Rogers, Francis Marion, T.E. Buried inMount Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. He was captured in April 1864 andspent the remainder of the war at Fort Warren. Mosby's Rangers in the Shenandoah Valley. 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. Served in the 1st Maryland Cavalrybefore joining Mosby. Even then, the 5-foot-5 Cab was heavyset. A friendship based on mutual admiration rose up between the two, and Mosby became a Republican who worked to repair the fractured Union. 3. Hoskins did not lose his sense of wanderlust and ventured to Canada late in 1861. After less than a month, Mosbys combat tactics in the Valley were established. William also fell in love with a young lady, Josephine Jeffries, living in Mosbys Confederacy. The Scouts never fought Mosby again. The Union viewed them as unsoldierly: a loose band of roving thieves. My poor motherJesus have mercy on her soul! Upon seeing Atkins body, Mosby reportedly said, There lies a man I would not have given for a whole regiment of Yankees.. After a brief stay, he returned to England in 1861. Accounts vary, but about twenty Scouts were killed and another twenty captured, including Captain Blazer. Great-grandson of John Henley, a signerof the Declaration of Independence. Because he somehow blamed George Custer for the Front Royal affair, Mosby wanted most of the condemned Federals to have served under Custer. He rose through the officer ranks of Mosbys Rangers, eventually assuming the rank of lieutenant colonel and became second only to Mosby in command of the unit. Live a Nautical Lifestyle. In 1862, still not comfortable remaining in one place for too long, Hoskins left Canada for the United States and settled in Baltimore, Md. Those who were not captured or killed, scattered. By D.A. Bottom: Mosby Heritage Area sign on Route 211 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Left: Mosby's grave in Warrenton, Virginia. Late in the month, with Stuarts blessing, Mosby gathered experienced horsemen from the Middleburg, VA area to form Mosbys Rangers. By 1890, he had the supreme command of the Prussian cavalry. My Three Favorite (but obscure) War Movies, Innovation on Morse Code for the US Military, Lone Survivor uncovered: The ambush at Sawtalo Sar, Adam Brown: A SEALs Life of Courage and Redemption, Complete List: Ticonderoga-class Missile Cruisers To Retire By 2027, Nuclear Close Calls That Nearly Caused World War III, Russian Sausage Millionaire and Putin Critic Falls to His Death in India, Deadly Russian Rifle Brigade Wiped Out During War in Ukraine. 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. was acting under the authority of General Robert E. Lee, who had granted him A few rangers carried other weapons, but Mosby favored pistols, especially 1860 Colt Army revolvers, because they provided close-combat firepower without being cumbersome. Henry's parents, Miletus and Frances Harris, had moved to Scottsville from Louisa County about 1837. During the Civil War Mosby's Rangers were an irregular body of Confederate troops under the command of Col. John S. Mosby. Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton who was captured in bed. Finally it was not safe to send despatches by a courier unless a regiment was sent along to guard him.[26]. At wars end, when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, Mosbys men never surrendered, they disbanded and returned to their farms. Riding with Stuart and about 1,200 Confederate horsemen, Mosby scouted ahead and along the columns flanks in the infamous four-day circuit around the entire United States Army of the Potomac. On the 150th anniversary of the fall of the city of Atlanta to the Union Army's Division of the Mississippi during the Civil War, we're "Um, what is that? He took part in Stuarts famous ride around McClellans army but was captured on July 20, while waiting for a train at Beaverdam Depot. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy lines to disrupt the Union war effort. Mosby greatly respected Lee but had no desire to surrender. Relevance Enlisted as a private in the Washington(Va.) Mounted Rifles on May 14, 1861. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING VETERAN JOURNALISM - JOIN SOFREP+ His well-varnished account of it was that I ordered him to be shot at sunrise, that he said he hoped it would be a foggy morning, and that I was so much amused by his reply that I relented and pardoned him. Mosby got his first chance to attack Sheridan early on August 13th, 1864. Sells, James
He saw action with the Rangers at Miskels Farm on April 1, 1863, and at Warrenton Junction on May 3. I suspect that with the addition of accoutrements,they didnt look much differnt . Younger brotherof Ranger George Meacham Slater. Around thirty Federal troopers were killed or wounded, others captured. [25] In discussing as Mosby's "greatest piece of annoyance", the Greenback Raid in which Mosby's men derailed a train and captured a $170,000 payroll from the paymasters of Philip Sheridan's army (each of the 80 raiders received a $2100 share, though Mosby himself took nothing), Munson says that due to Mosby's comparatively tiny force, [i]t was necessary for the Federal troops to guard every wagon train, railroad bridge and camp with enough active and efficient men to prevent Mosby from using his three hundred raiders in one of his destructive rushes at any hour of the day or night. Read Next: Oldest Merrills Marauder MG Milton Pitcher Dies at 100. It took a personal letter to now President Grant to stop the practice. With a recommendation from J.E.B. It has been said that we wore blue to deceive the enemy, but this is ridiculous, for we were always in the enemy's country where a Southern soldier caught dressed in a blue uniform would have been treated to a swift court-martial and shot as a spy. Turmoil in Richmond: Joe Johnston, Jefferson Davis Command Alliance Was Doomed From the Start. . 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. Nofurther information available. He fired six shots and emptied five saddles."[17]. (Jeb) Stuart, then the cavalry commander of the Confederate army that soon became the Army of Northern Virginia. I disband your organization in preference to surrendering it to our enemies. . 2, Chapman. By November 1864, Mosby and his rangers were largely on their own in the Shenandoah Valley war. Instead of surrendering, Mosby's command simply disbanded. Mosby's area of operations was Northern Virginia from the Shenandoah Valley to the west, along the Potomac River to Alexandria to the east, bounded on the south by the Rappahannock River, with most of his operations centered in or near Fauquier and Loudoun counties, in an area known as "Mosby's Confederacy". After the action he rode his horse some distance toward Fairfax, slid exhausted out of the saddle and fell asleep in a field, and on the following morning: . He was admitted to the insaneward at Bellevue Hospital in August. CLAIBORNE ROBINSON,Private, Company D. Lived in Baltimore after the war. Taking along a small contingent of Rangers, Mosby decided to travel south in hopes of linking up with General Joseph Johnston and continue fighting. It was a position both detested. R. Roland Sergeant. Confederate Congress revoked the authority of all partisan units, except for He is able and thoroughly honest and truthful.. Thompson, John D.
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