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    John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), also known by his nickname "Gray Ghost", was an American military officer who was a Confederate...
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  • John Mosby may refer to: John S. Mosby (1833–1916), Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John R. Mosby, member of the Industrial Workers of the...
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  • John S. Mosby Academy was a private high school in Front Royal, Virginia, established in 1959 when the city's schools were ordered to desegregate following...
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    SS John S. Mosby was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after John S. Mosby, a Confederate army cavalry battalion...
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    June 10, 1863 at Rector's Cross Roads, near Rectortown, Virginia, when John S. Mosby formed Company A of the battalion. He was acting under the authority...
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    of Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1878, Hayes appointed Mosby as U.S. Consul in Hong Kong, where Mosby served until 1885. Mosby supported...
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  • Mosby's Marauders is a 1967 American film about the raids by John S. Mosby during the US Civil War. It was originally filmed for US television under the...
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  • Representatives John Mosby Bacon (1844–1913), American Army general John R. Mosby, guerrilla leader during the Magonista rebellion of 1911 John S. Mosby (1833–1916)...
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    Cuban revolutionary who advocated for the U.S. annexation of Cuba before serving in the Confederacy. John S. Mosby – Confederate irregular cavalry leader who...
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    battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. Confederate partisan John S. Mosby based his operations in Loudoun and adjoining Fauquier County (for a...
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    John R. Mosby, aka Jack Mosby, was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World who served as head of the Second Division of the Liberal Army during...
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  • Captain John S. Mosby, with nine companies of cavalry, defeated Captain Richard R. Blazer's outnumbered Blazer's Scouts. In late 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant's...
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    of Gettysburg, he later served in Mosby's Rangers before working with the Confederate Secret Service in Maryland. John Wilkes Booth recruited him into a...
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  • Grey Ghost, a fictional character in the Speed Racer film adaptation John S. Mosby (1833–1916), Confederate cavalryman and partisan who fought during the...
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  • famous for wearing these hats are Colonel John S. Mosby and General J. E. B. Stuart. Colonel John S. Mosby 3rd from right center row J. E. B. Stuart The...
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  • Springs: Confederate Memorial (1922) Warrenton: Monument to CSA colonel John S. Mosby (1916) Washington: Confederate Monument (1898) Williamsburg: Williamsburg...
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    from the town of Warrenton. Confederate Major (eventually Colonel) John S. Mosby led the attack against about 100 men from the Union's 1st (West) Virginia...
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  • officer John S. Mosby, whose rangers fought throughout the region during the American Civil War. During the Civil War the area was known as Mosby's Confederacy...
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    part of "Mosby's Confederacy" and served as rallying and rest points for the Confederate Rangers Mosby's Rangers under Colonel John S. Mosby. Numerous...
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    soldier. On June 24, 1864, after Confederate States Army troops led by John S. Mosby in Culpeper, Virginia had captured a good number of Corbett's comrades...
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    service entirely in 1989 with the removal of tracks. Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby made raids in the town during the American Civil War and later made...
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    howitzer captured by Confederate forces was recaptured May 29, 1863 from John S. Mosby raid at Greenwich, Virginia. This Union defeat was relatively minor...
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    guerrillas in West Virginia and Virginia; especially those of Colonel John S. Mosby. They specialized in anti-guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency, dragoon...
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  • Forbes and Confederate forces under Colonel John S. Mosby near Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia as part of Mosby's Operations in Northern Virginia. After...
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    contained within the area known as Mosby's Confederacy, the main area of operations for Confederate partisan John S. Mosby, and the town was pillaged as part...
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    not confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Four days later, on March 8, 1863, he was captured by Confederate partisan ranger John S. Mosby while asleep at his headquarters...
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  • wounded (mw) = mortally wounded (k) = killed in action (c) = captured MG John C. Breckinridge, commanding Dismounted men from the 23rd Virginia Cavalry...
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    an elderly Colonel John S. Mosby raised this issue in 1911, Elzey wrote a letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch in answer to Mosby: I was General Pickett's...
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    1861–1865. In that war, Confederate States Army Partisan leaders, such as John S. Mosby, Jesse James, William Quantrill, or Bloody Bill Anderson, operated along...
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  • Mosby's Raiders is a solitaire board wargame based upon a Confederate partisan ranger unit led by famed Colonel John S. Mosby during the American Civil...
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