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In the late 1950s, a number of interested citizens, including Virginia Senator Mosby G. Perrow, Jr., requested the federal government to change its long-planned route for the interstate highway now known as I-64 between Clifton Forge and Richmond.
* Mosby G. Perrow, Jr., Virginia Senator whose efforts helped end Massive Resistance
He was elected president of student body as an undergraduate with the help of Mosby G. Perrow, Jr., and the two would later serve together on the Virginia State Board of Education in the 1960s.
Heeding the advice of several within his own party, including Senator Mosby G. Perrow, Jr., Almond realized that opposition to desegregation was ultimately futile as the state continued to lose in the courts ; when Virginia's Stanley plan, the package of laws which implemented massive resistance, were declared unconstitutional he changed the state's policy, adopting the proposals of the Perrow Commission, and thereby earned the wrath of the Byrd Organization.

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* 1833 John S. Mosby, American Civil War figure ( d. 1916 )
When Sheridan reported suffering attacks by irregular Confederate cavalry under John S. Mosby, Grant recommended rounding up their families for imprisonment as hostages at Ft. McHenry.
His father was a friend of John Singleton Mosby, the noted cavalry leader of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War who served first under J. E. B.
Mosby International Limited ; 2001: 623-36.
The 2007 Rascals finished last in the league in both fielding and pitching and offense suffered after the team lost first baseman Bobby Mosby in a trade to the Northern League and outfielder Phil Laurent, who was signed by the San Diego Padres.
* In the TV show How I Met Your Mother, 2011 episode " The Slutty Pumpkin Returns " shows character Ted Mosby in 2001 dressed as a ' hanging chad.
For the first two years after the county was formed, Mosby Tavern served as the Powhatan County courthouse.
Confederate partisan John S. Mosby based his operations in Loudoun and adjoining Fauquier County ( for a more in-depth account of the history of Loudoun County during the Civil War, see Loudoun County in the American Civil War ).
From 1749 until the creation of Powhatan County in 1777, Mosby Tavern served as the county courthouse, and the tavern subsequently became known as " Old Cumberland Courthouse.
During the Civil War, John S. Mosby, " the Gray Ghost " of the Confederacy, raided General Sheridan's supply train in the summer of 1864, in Berryville.
It is named for William Mosby Eastland, a soldier during the Texas Revolution and the only officer to die as a result of the so-called " Black Bean executions " of the ill-fated Mier Expedition.
It is named for Nicholas Mosby Dawson, a soldier of the Texas Revolution.
Broadway ( Indiana 53 ) is also the Carolyn Mosby Memorial Highway.
Harris ' break in Los Angeles was at a nightclub owned by Curtis Mosby.
Mosby is a city in Clay County, Missouri, United States, along the Fishing River.
Mosby is located at ( 39. 314190 ,-94. 303369 ).

Mosby and Virginia
Colonel John S. Mosby made raids in the town during the American Civil War, and, later, he made his home and practiced law in nearby Warrenton, Virginia.
From 1749 to 1779, the Mosby Tavern was the courthouse, jail, and militia rendezvous for Cumberland County, Virginia and later for Powhatan County, Virginia.
During the American Civil War, the town was often raided by Confederate partisans, such as John S. Mosby, Elijah V. White and John Mobberly, operating in Loudoun County, Virginia.
The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity was known during the war and ever since as Mosby's Confederacy.
Mosby was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, to Virginia McLaurine Mosby and Alfred Daniel Mosby, a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College.
His father was a member of an old Virginia family of English origin whose ancestor, Richard Mosby, was born in England in 1600 and settled in Charles City, Virginia in the early 17th century.
Mosby was upset with the Virginia Volunteers ' lack of congeniality, and he wrote to the governor requesting to be transferred.
In January 1863, Stuart, with Lee's concurrence, authorized Mosby to form and take command of the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Partisan Rangers.
Mosby endured his first serious wound of the war on August 24, 1863, during a battle near Annandale, Virginia, when a bullet hit him through his thigh and side.
On September 22, 1864, Union forces executed six of Mosby's men who had been captured out of uniform in Front Royal, Virginia ; a seventh ( captured, according to Mosby's subsequent letter to Sheridan, " by a Colonel Powell on a plundering expedition into Rappahannock ") was reported by Mosby to have suffered a similar fate.
After informing General Robert E. Lee and Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon of his intention to respond in kind, Mosby ordered seven Union prisoners, chosen by lot, to be executed in retaliation on November 6, 1864, at Rectortown, Virginia.
Mosby had his closest brush with death on December 21, 1864, near Rector's Crossroads in Virginia.
Several weeks after General Robert E. Lee's surrender, Mosby simply disbanded his rangers on April 21, 1865, in Salem, Virginia, as he refused to surrender formally.
Mosby went on to become a campaign manager in Virginia for President Ulysses S. Grant.

Mosby and Senator
Efforts were made by the Senators from Nebraska to have Mosby removed from the investigation by claiming that he had charged them with misconduct and it is probable but not provable that then Senator Alger might well have helped in that effort given his feelings about the old Confederate.
So Mosby was removed, but in the end, the cattlemen were convicted and one died in prison while at least one Senator who had charged Mosby with misconduct was himself removed from office for misconduct.

Mosby and
Mosby, Carroll is also remembered for his role as the frustrated banker haunted by the ghosts of George and Marion Kerby ( sometimes erroneously spelled " Kirby ") in the 1950s television series Topper ( 1953 1956 ), which also starred Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling and Lee Patrick.
John Singleton Mosby ( December 6, 1833 May 30, 1916 ), nicknamed the " Gray Ghost ", was a Confederate cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War.
* 0 8 v Carlisle United, Division 3 ( N ) 25 November 1952 Team: Malan, Hubbard, Brownsword, McGill, Taylor, Bushby, Daley, Haigh, White, Whitfield, Mosby
# Mosby, Missouri $ 12, 617
His regiment was then assigned to the Second Corps, Third Division, in the Army of the Potomac and fought at North Anna ( May 24 25 ) where he and some other men were captured by a detachment of John S. Mosby ’ s partisan command.

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