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Mosby and is
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.
Mosby is a city in Clay County, Missouri, United States, along the Fishing River.
Mosby is located at ( 39. 314190 ,-94. 303369 ).
There is also a system of cycle trails at Mosby Creek.
In March 2008, the How I Met Your Mother episode " Ten Sessions " featured main character Ted Mosby arguing that Manos is the worst movie ever made, even when compared to Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Mosby is famous for carrying out a daring raid far inside Union lines at the Fairfax County courthouse in March 1863, where his men captured three Union officers, including Brig.
The Mosby Heritage Area Association in Middleburg, headquartered in Middleburg, is actively involved in preserving the history, culture, and scenery of this historic area.
* The John Singleton Mosby Museum is located in Warrenton, Virginia, at the historic Brentmoor estate where Mosby lived from 1875 to 1877.
* John Mosby Highway, a section of US Route 50 between Dulles Airport and Winchester, Virginia, is named for Colonel Mosby.
* Mosby Woods Elementary School in the Fairfax County Public Schools system is named in his honor.
* Mosby Woods subdivision in Fairfax City is also named in his honor.
* The post office branch for zip code 22042 ( in Northern Virginia's Falls Church area ) is referred to by the USPS as the Mosby branch.
* In the TV series How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby stated, after Barney Stinson found a pornographic film in which an actor shared the same name as Ted, " This is really bizarre — the only other famous Mosby I know was a Confederate general during the Civil War.
* In Issue # 22 of fantasy, western, horror comic book The Sixth Gun, one of the main protagonists, Drake Sinclair, is said to have trained with Mosby during the Civil War.
This, however, is not accurate, as the area considered in this study is actually known as Church Hill North: a distinctly separate neighborhood containing the Mosby Court housing project north of Church Hill proper.
The house that is now the Gunnell House ( at that time a private residence ) was used as the Union headquarters by General Stoughton until 1863 when he was captured in the middle of the night by Confederate Captain John Mosby.
It was reported in the May 11, 1898, San Francisco Call under the headline " Alger Dislikes Mosby " and it is probable that until he read that article, the 65 year old Mosby had no idea that his failure to obtain a position was anything other than bad luck.

Mosby and also
The valley, especially in the lower northern section, was also the scene of bitter partisan fighting as the region's inhabitants were deeply divided over loyalties and Confederate partisan John Mosby and his Rangers frequently operated in the area.
He had also called on the 5, 000 men in the divisions of Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill and Brigadier General Mosby M. Parsons which had been encamped near Keachie, between Mansfield and Shreveport.
He also wrote the late-1950s television program, Ranger Mosby.
He was involved in the defenses of Washington, D. C., and his troopers also tangled with the Confederate partisan ranger, John S. Mosby.

Mosby and for
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.
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.
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 to 1779, the Mosby Tavern was the courthouse, jail, and militia rendezvous for Cumberland County, Virginia and later for Powhatan County, Virginia.
Rescue Technician: Operational Readiness for Rescue Providers, edited by Claire Merrick, for the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute ; Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, Mo.
When Mosby heard that Turpin had insulted him from a friend, Mosby sent Turpin a letter asking for an explanation — one of the rituals in the code of honor to which Southern gentlemen adhered.
Mosby studied law for the rest of his incarceration.
After studying for months in Robertson's law office, Mosby was admitted to the bar and established his own practice in nearby Howardsville.
Captured by Union cavalry, Mosby was imprisoned in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D. C. for ten days before being exchanged.
According to reports at the time, his last words were, " My last moments are sweetened by the reflection that for every man you murder this day Mosby will take a tenfold vengeance.
Although left for dead, Mosby recovered and returned to the war effort once again two months later.
Mosby went on to become a campaign manager in Virginia for President Ulysses S. Grant.
A major postbellum activity for Mosby was his prolific defense of J. E. B.
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

Mosby and role
He played the role of Colonel Francis Clay Mosby in 42 episodes of the Western television series Lonesome Dove: The Series ( 1994 ) and Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years ( 1995 ).

Mosby and by
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.
Harris ' break in Los Angeles was at a nightclub owned by Curtis Mosby.
The last important Civil War action in Loudoun County, known as The Harmony Skirmish, took place on March 21, 1865 as confederate Colonel John S. Mosby and his troops surprised troops commanded by Colonel Marcus Reno.
" The Confederates were not idle during this period and Sheridan's men were plagued by guerrilla raids by partisan ranger Col. John S. Mosby.
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.
Instead of becoming withdrawn and lacking in self-confidence, the boy responded by fighting back, although the editor of his memoirs recounted a statement Mosby made that he never won any fight in which he was engaged.
Mosby endured a second serious wound on September 14, 1864, while taunting a Union regiment by riding back and forth in front of it.
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 was a wanted man, with a $ 5000 bounty on his head issued by Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock.
" War Loses Its Romance ": Inscription of military quotation by John S. Mosby at Veterans Memorial at the Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania | Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton, Pennsylvania | Scranton, Pennsylvania
* The 1967 Disney television movie Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders starred Kurt Russell as a young Confederate serving under Mosby, portrayed by Jack Ging.
Published by Mosby.

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