North Central Virginia became the preserve of
one of the most dashing figures of the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby,
nicknamed, the “Gray Ghost”.
Ruminating on war, Mosby wrote, “It is a
classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but
whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to
live for it.”
Mosby disapproved of
slavery but once said, “I am not ashamed
of having fought on the side of slavery – a soldier fights for his country –
right or wrong – he is not responsible for the political merits of the course
he fights in . . . The South was my country.”
The 1865 Fall of Richmond in Pictures
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