The Gray Ghost

[relichound]

CDV of Col. John S. Mosby, the brilliant leader of the Virginia guerrilla soldiers.
At one point he was shot by a Union soldier and left for dead.
But he survived the war to become a friend of President Grant, and
his employee for awhile. Mosby kept his friendship with the southerners though.
Oh I forgot to mention the best thing about this CDV. Has a Richmond back mark.

 

[James N.]

This was made in Richmond during the Winter of 1864-65 while Mosby was convalescing from his most serious wound. He's wearing the collar insignia of a lieutenant colonel (two stars) but before he returned to duty in 1865 he was promoted to full colonel.

 

[UCVRelics]

Here is a VERY Rare Mosby's Veterans pin I have in my collection. There aren't many of these around. Plus a reunion photo that show some of the CS vets wearing this lapel pin.

 

[James N.]

Here is a VERY Rare Mosby's Veterans pin I have in my collection. There aren't many of these around. Plus a reunion photo that show some of the CS vets wearing this lapel pin.
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When I was researching my thread on Mosby, I discovered there had been a surprisingly large number of members/veterans of the 43rd Virginia: over the relatively short course of its existence 1863-65 I believe around 2,000 belonged to it at one time or another, though there were rarely more than a few dozen active at any one time. Members even included Lincoln Assassination conspirator Lewis Powell/Payne and others like him who had deserted from other units, though Mosby officially discouraged this, sending them back to their units if discovered.

 

[donna]

Very nice photo of him. One of my favorite officers.

 

[CowCavalry]

And a friend of a young George Patton.

 

[JPChurch]

This was made in Richmond during the Winter of 1864-65 while Mosby was convalescing from his most serious wound. He's wearing the collar insignia of a lieutenant colonel (two stars) but before he returned to duty in 1865 he was promoted to full colonel.

The CDV attached shows Mosby with three stars on his collar???? The Kincheloe family lived close to here. There are a few of them buried in the family plot off "Kincheloe Rd" on the Fairfax County side of Bull Run (it's actually the Occoquan at this point). I've visited the plot before. I met one of the Kincheloe descendants at a court hearing. He was defending one of my friends. Very prominent lawyer. I asked him about his family and his Mason ring he was wearing. Regretfully he didn't have the time to give me details as my friend's case got called up.

 

[James N.]

The CDV attached shows Mosby with three stars on his collar???? The Kincheloe family lived close to here. There are a few of them buried in the family plot off "Kincheloe Rd" on the Fairfax County side of Bull Run (it's actually the Occoquan at this point). I've visited the plot before. I met one of the Kincheloe descendants at a court hearing. He was defending one of my friends. Very prominent lawyer. I asked him about his family and his Mason ring he was wearing. Regretfully he didn't have the time to give me details as my friend's case got called up.

Sorry; I stupidly failed to look back at the OP! Then this was conclusively photographed in Richmond AFTER his final promotion but BEFORE he returned to Northern Virginia. Interestingly, at the same time he was convalescing he was also posing for this portrait:

 

[JPChurch]

Mosby was first wounded at Gooding's Tavern outside Annandale. Our family lived close to the site. The Oak Hill plantation was in between Braddock Rd and the Little River Turnpike. It still exists off Wakefield Chapel Rd. There was an encounter between Reb dismounted cavalry and Union infantry in one of the cook houses known as the "Oak Hill Kitchen Skirmish."