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Mosby's friendship with Grant, and his work with those whom many Southerners considered the enemy, made Mosby a highly controversial figure in Virginia.

He received death threats, his boyhood home was burned down, and at least one attempt was made to assassinate him.

Said Mosby: " There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against