John Singleton Mosby
John Singleton Mosby (December 6th 1833 – May 30th 1916) During the American Civil War, in December of 1862 a young person scout of the army of the States confederated of America of the Stuart general left his service to form an independent unit partisane. Mosby operated mainly behind the enemy lines in Virginia. In spring of 1863, with the head of a group of 60 men, it creates the company has forty-third battalion of cavalry of Virginia. These soldiers became the famous unit known under the name of “guards of Mosby” or “gray phantoms of Mosby”.
The men of this unit badgered the back with the army of the Union. Their efforts were so effective that their capture was a top priority of the commanders of the Union.
Usually operating in small groups, they had the capacity to appear where none awaited them and to disappear also suddenly. The only mention of the name of Mosby generated fear within the troops northerner.
The general Lee, about it: “Hourrah for Mosby! I wish to have hundred like him of them”.
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