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THE MEMOIRS OF COLONEL JOHN S. MOSBY. CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE I WAS born December 6, , at the home of my grandfather, James McLaurine, in Powhatan County, Virginia. He was a son . The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby. "Colonel Mosby was a 'Virginian of the Virginians', educated at the State's University, and seemed destined to pass his life as an obscure Virginia attorney, Author: John Singleton Mosby. This is an interesting but disjointed book, written by Colonel John S. Mosby, the notorious "Gray Ghost," whose unrelenting guerilla campaign in northern Virginia during the Civil War so vexed the Union army that the area became known as "Mosby's Confederacy." The book is, to say the least, a bit of patchwork/5().

Summary of The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby. John Singleton Mosby was born to Alfred D. Mosby and Virginia McLaurine Mosby on December 6, After growing up on his parents' farm in Albermarle County, Virginia, Mosby enrolled in the University of Virginia in Three years later, he was imprisoned for shooting a man "unlawfully" in. These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almost within sight of the capitol. With only a few local men under command, John Singleton Mosby's ability to strike fast and then melt away before an effective pursuit could be organized kept the Yankee forces awake and often snarled in knots. Buy a cheap copy of The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby book by John S. Mosby. The story of the activity of this flamboyant commander and his men from his own perspective. Free shipping over $

John Singleton Mosby, The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby. This is an interesting but disjointed book, written by Colonel John S. Mosby, the notorious "Gray Ghost," whose unrelenting guerilla campaign in northern Virginia during the Civil War so vexed the Union army that the area became known as "Mosby's Confederacy." The book is, to say the least, a bit of patchwork. THE MEMOIRS OF COLONEL JOHN S. MOSBY. CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE I WAS born December 6, , at the home of my grandfather, James McLaurine, in Powhatan County, Virginia. He was a son of Robert McLaurine, an Episcopal minister, who came from Scotland before the Revolution.