" Most historians find the encounter as Mosby interpreted it unlikely, especially as when asked why Pickett's Charge failed, Pickett was on record elsewhere as having said " I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

The slaves ' owners had suspicion of the uprising, and two slaves told their owner, Mosby Sheppard, about the plans.

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.

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 decided he had to meet Turpin despite the risk ; to run away would be dishonorable.

Mosby later discovered that he had been expelled from the university before he was brought to trial.

Mosby quickly asked if he had ever heard of " Mosby ".

" Mosby and his 29 men had captured a Union general, two captains, 30 enlisted men, and 58 horses without firing a shot.

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.

Mosby had served under Stuart during the campaign and was fiercely loyal to the late general, writing, " He made me all that I was in the war.

Mosby, a famous ( or notorious ) figure, had been United States Consul at Hong Kong, China, under Hayes but had been replaced with the election of Democrat Grover Cleveland.

Upon his return to the United States, Mosby had taken a position obtained for him by his close friend former President Ulysses S. Grant with the Southern Pacific Railroad which he held for fifteen years.

Mosby had known McKinley for many years through his involvement in Republican politics both in Virginia and California.

Alger never forgot nor forgave what had happened for though Mosby was not present at the time of the events, he had concurred with the actions of his men.

So despite having been asked to send a list to the McKinley administration of what posts he desired, by the time he arrived from the west coast Mosby found that all had been " unexpectedly " given to someone else and he was forced to return to the west coast disappointed and unemployed.

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.

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.

The town was frequently associated with Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby, whose partisan rangers used its hillsides and farms as a base of operations, leading to the sobriquet of Mosby's Confederacy.

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.

The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity was known during the war and ever since as Mosby's Confederacy.

Unable to keep up with the strenuous academics, Mosby left the college after two years.

On March 29 the two met, Mosby having brought with him a small pepper-box pistol in the hope of dissuading Turpin from an attack.

Mosby was upset with the Virginia Volunteers ' lack of congeniality, and he wrote to the governor requesting to be transferred.

Stuart with his ability to gather intelligence, Mosby was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to Stuart's cavalry scouts.

In January 1863, Stuart, with Lee's concurrence, authorized Mosby to form and take command of the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Partisan Rangers.

Mosby wrote in his memoirs that he found Stoughton in bed and roused him with a " spank on his bare back.

On November 11, 1864, Mosby wrote to Philip Sheridan, the commander of Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley, requesting that both sides resume treating prisoners with humanity.

Apparently having dinner with a family in a Southern home, Mosby was fired on through a window, and the ball entered his abdomen two inches below the navel.

Many of his men obtained official parole documents from the Federals and returned to their homes, but Mosby himself traveled southward with a small party of officers to join up with General Joseph E. Johnston's army in North Carolina.

Mosby was a wanted man, with a $ 5000 bounty on his head issued by Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock.

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

Mosby then served as a lawyer in San Francisco, California with the Southern Pacific Railroad.

During visits to the Patton Ranch in Southern California, Colonel Mosby would re-enact the Civil War with George ; playing himself, he let George play the part of General Lee as they would recount the battles of the war, astride their horses.

* 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.

Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby.

He was involved in the defenses of Washington, D. C., and his troopers also tangled with the Confederate partisan ranger, John S. Mosby.

Dewey Rowell ( Flattus Maximus ), Michael Bishop ( Beefcake the Mighty ) and Rob Mosby ( Nippleus Erectus ) were recruited in 1987, along with Steve Douglas ( Balsac the Jaws of Death ) who rejoined the band after having previously left.

Five of the six bridges, Chambers Covered Bridge, Currin Bridge, Dorena Bridge, Mosby Creek Bridge, and Stewart Bridge, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

Joseph Johnson reviewed the evidence and pardoned Mosby on December 23, 1853.

Even as a prisoner Mosby spied on his enemy.

Having previously been promoted to captain, on March 15, 1863, and major, on March 26, 1863, in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, Mosby was soon promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 21, 1864, and to colonel, December 7, 1864.

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.

Mosby endured a second serious wound on September 14, 1864, while taunting a Union regiment by riding back and forth in front of it.

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.

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.

In a 1907 letter, Mosby explained why he fought on the Confederate side, despite disapproving of slavery.

Union Hill is bordered on the south by Jefferson Avenue, on the north by Venable Street, on the east by 25th Street, and by Mosby on the west.