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Major
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2013
- Location
- Buford, Georgia
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Mosby was summoned to Richmond in December 1864 The South was in desperate plight. Mosby was made a full Colonel with the promise of Generalship. Under authority of President Davis He was to head up wholesale guerilla warfare in Northern Virginia!
He would form eight battalions of four companies each with Mosby as the leader.
All these plans changed on Dec 21st, 1964. That afternoon Mosby attended a wedding of his sergeant that night during a sleet storm Mosby & Ranger Tom Love took shelter at the home of Ludwell & Sarah Lake the parents of one of his men. Inside the warm home Mosby dropped his coat and Scarlet lined cape and plumed hat in the corner and had dinner with the Lakes. About 9 pm Mosby heard a noise; he looked outside he saw Yankee horses in the yard. They snuffed out the candle and Mosby tiptoed across the room. Corporal Kane of the 13th New York Cavalry standing outside on the porch saw his reflection by the fireplace fired 2 shots. Mosby turned and one shot struck him just left of his navel. Mosby removed his coat with his insignia, and stuffed in under the bureau. He was lying in a pool of blood as the Yankees came in the room. He held Mrs. Lake's Bonnet to his wound and had smeared some blood in his mouth. The Yankee Major had been drinking and was a little tipsy. So when he saw Mosby bleeding from his belly and blood from his mouth pronounced his wound fatal so they left taking his boots and Tom Love as a prisoner. Taken to a neighbors by oxcart then on to Lynchburg where he spent 2 ½ months recovering from his wounds. For him the war was almost over but John S. Mosby lived another 52 years!
Mosby was summoned to Richmond in December 1864 The South was in desperate plight. Mosby was made a full Colonel with the promise of Generalship. Under authority of President Davis He was to head up wholesale guerilla warfare in Northern Virginia!
He would form eight battalions of four companies each with Mosby as the leader.
All these plans changed on Dec 21st, 1964. That afternoon Mosby attended a wedding of his sergeant that night during a sleet storm Mosby & Ranger Tom Love took shelter at the home of Ludwell & Sarah Lake the parents of one of his men. Inside the warm home Mosby dropped his coat and Scarlet lined cape and plumed hat in the corner and had dinner with the Lakes. About 9 pm Mosby heard a noise; he looked outside he saw Yankee horses in the yard. They snuffed out the candle and Mosby tiptoed across the room. Corporal Kane of the 13th New York Cavalry standing outside on the porch saw his reflection by the fireplace fired 2 shots. Mosby turned and one shot struck him just left of his navel. Mosby removed his coat with his insignia, and stuffed in under the bureau. He was lying in a pool of blood as the Yankees came in the room. He held Mrs. Lake's Bonnet to his wound and had smeared some blood in his mouth. The Yankee Major had been drinking and was a little tipsy. So when he saw Mosby bleeding from his belly and blood from his mouth pronounced his wound fatal so they left taking his boots and Tom Love as a prisoner. Taken to a neighbors by oxcart then on to Lynchburg where he spent 2 ½ months recovering from his wounds. For him the war was almost over but John S. Mosby lived another 52 years!
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