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Famous as the commander of Mosby's Rangers, John Singleton Mosby was born outside Richmond, Virginia on December 6, 1833. Mosby attended the University of Virginia... having a propensity for violence, while there he was arrested and imprisoned for shooting a fellow student. During his trial, he became interested in the law, and subsequently pursued a career in law, and was admitted to the bar.
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Depending upon one’s sympathies, John Singleton Mosby was either a guerrilla or a cavalry hero. This native Virginian was by profession a lawyer, but when the Civil War began, he joined the Confederate cavalry in time to fight at the First Battle of Manassas. Placed under the command of General J. E. B. Stuart, Mosby fought with such distinction in the Peninsular Campaign and at Antietam that in 1863 he was authorized to organize a group of rangers. They were to operate behind enemy lines, striking without warning and then dispersing to meet later at a prearranged spot.
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John Singleton Mosby never commanded large forces in the field nor did his actions change the war's course. Nevertheless, Mosby's exploits did create a sensation throughout the southern population and a certain fear amongst the Federals striving to control and pacify Northern Virginia. U. S. Grant perhaps wrote the most telling epitaph about Mosby's partisan service that "there were probably but few men in the South who could have commanded successfully in separate detachment in the rear of an opposing army and so near the border of hostilities as long as he did without losing his entire command."
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