I never knew, nor did I ever hear, of any man in our Command wearing a blue uniform under any circumstances . I made him a captain for it. Promoted to 1st lieutenant on April2, 1862, and served as adjutant of the1st Virginia Cavalry. battalion never formally surrendered, but was disbanded on April 21, 1865, after Mosbys men conducted nearly 30 raids in 1863-64 and were very successful at putting a thorn in the enemys backside as well as scouting and foraging for the army. Take no prisoners! Chapman yelled. One of Mosby's men, Munson stated in memoirs published after the war that "the term [guerrilla] was not applied to us in the South in any general way until after the war, when we had made the name glorious, and in time we became as indifferent to it as the whole South to the word Rebel. Nonetheless when raiding they did wear Confederate gray at least in some fashion. As you succeed in your operations, your notoriety grows and the Union devotes additional troops to stopping you. Mosby's men each carried two .44 Colt army revolvers worn in belt holsters, and some carried an extra pair stuck in their boot tops. 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. 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. 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. 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. Accounts vary, but about twenty Scouts were killed and another twenty captured, including Captain Blazer. 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. As the fiery Covenanter rode on his predestined course the enemys ranks withered wherever he went. Reportedly a prosperous and well-knownarchitect in New York City afterthe war. From this modest beginning whould grow on of the best know of all ranger commands. But if you want to see some really cool objects used by Colonel Mosby, come to the National Museum of American History! The battalion was formed in June, 1863, with five companies, later increased to eight. The first three requirements were obvious. By the summer of 1864, Mosby and his men were disrupting the advance of the United States Army of the Shenandoah into Virginias Shenandoah Valley. Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself. CLAIBORNE ROBINSON,Private, Company D. Lived in Baltimore after the war. 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. Hibbs unique ability to find forage paid personal dividends, too. Bottom: Mosby Heritage Area sign on Route 211 in Fauquier County, Virginia. This proved useful to Confederate military raiding. 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. 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. A seventh captured ranger was executed later. . This sort of shooting left the enemy with a good many empty saddles after an engagement. Join SOFREP for insider access and analysis. 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. Mosby supported Grant, his former foe, in the presidential election and was his campaign manager in the state of Virginia. That was [our] final ride together. The diary of Union mapmaker Private Robert Knox Sneden, who Mosby captured near Brandy Station, Virginia at 3:00am November 27, 1863, records that Mosby's raiders were disguised in Union Blue overcoats, and so was Mosby himself. They received mixed signals from General Winfield Scott Hancocks staff and rather than risk it, they instead just disbanded the unit. 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. 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. By November 1864, Mosby and his rangers were largely on their own in the Shenandoah Valley war. Mosby was only 31 when the war ended, but was constantly harassed by occupying Union troops. Mosby's Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Partisan Rangers) Overview: Mosby's Cavalry Regiment, formerly the 43rd Battalion, was organized in December, 1864. Engraving reproduced from Major John Scott. Both operated in Virginia and operated under normal military discipline. 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. 2023 The SOFREP Media Group. [5] Mosby's command operated mainly within the distance a horse could travel in a day's hard riding, approximately 25 miles (40km) in any direction from Middleburg, Virginia. The Partisan Rangers had a big hand in bringing the 'Gray Ghost' plenty of glory. Joined Apr 20, 2012. Hugh C. Keen, Horace Mewborn 1993. By the end of the war, its roster would number almost 2,000 men. Standing in Sheridans avenue to conquest was the tough, 14,000-man Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal Early. On May 30, 1863, the Rangers derailed and attacked a train near Catletts Station, Va. 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. He kept the faith received at his mothers knee and walked with God every day. He also said that after he got to the burning cars he made up for lost time. 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. HIBBS. Postwar, he was treasurer ofthe Washington Monument Society anda member of the Columbia HistoricalSociety. In 1906, after nearly 54 years of military service, he retired. Trenary, James F. Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. 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. 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. After the war he practicedlaw and was a judge on the SupremeBench of Baltimore for 22 years. In Baltimore, he became involved in smuggling goods into the Confederacy and subsequently made his way farther south, joining Mosbys command in March 1863. Mosby created his force under the auspices of the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862 which sought to recruit irregulars for service into the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Mosbys men dismissed the use of sabers, thinking them too limiting in combat. 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. This temporary, and informal, command would evolve into the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalryknown better as Mosbys Rangers. 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. [Photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889] Photograph. It was no fault of the Union cavalry that they did not get through faster than they did, but Sam seemed to think that it was. 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. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING VETERAN JOURNALISM - JOIN SOFREP+ . By the time of Mosby's death in 1916, the people of Virginia had softened their feelings towards him. I doubt whether he prayed that day for the souls of those he sent over the Stygian river. 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