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The grave of Col. John S Mosby grave at the Warrenton
Cemetery in Warrenton, Virginia. As a
child, Mosby was small, sickly and was often the target of bullying. He would
respond by fighting back.
During the course of the Civil War Mosby was wounded seven times. For someone
who had been a sickly youth, he proved quite resilient, dying at the age of 82
on May 30, 1916.
Sixty-six of Mosby’s Rangers are buried in the same
cemetery. After the
war, the thirty-one-year-old Mosby went on to become a
distinguished railway lawyer. He also
served as U.S. consul to Hong Kong and in several other Federal government
posts.
Although Mosby’s war time exploits have been
romanticized, he himself once said that there was, “no man in the Confederate Army who had less of the spirit of
knight-errantry in him or took a more practical view of war than I did.”
Civil War Graves of Northern Virginia
The Great Northern Rebellion of 1860 (alternate history)
The Great Northern Rebellion of 1860 (alternate history)
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