The Gray Ghost

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Colonel John Singleton Mosby ( elbow resting on chair ) poses with sixteen members of the 43rd Virginia Battalion of Cavalry. Mosby's Rangers were highly proficient at guerilla warfare, and raiding Yankee supply trains and outposts. Mosby helped Jeb Stuart plan his route through Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign.
From the Liljenquist Collection in the LOC.

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

Colonel John Singleton Mosby ( elbow resting on chair ) poses with sixteen members of the 43rd Virginia Battalion of Cavalry. Mosby's Rangers were highly proficient at guerilla warfare, and raiding Yankee supply trains and outposts. Mosby helped Jeb Stuart plan his route through Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign.
From the Liljenquist Collection in the LOC.
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I like the photo!

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

Colonel John Singleton Mosby ( elbow resting on chair ) poses with sixteen members of the 43rd Virginia Battalion of Cavalry. Mosby's Rangers were highly proficient at guerilla warfare, and raiding Yankee supply trains and outposts. Mosby helped Jeb Stuart plan his route through Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign.
From the Liljenquist Collection in the LOC.
View attachment 539493

It was the late 1950s when local TV station WCYB, Bristol, Tenn/VA signed on. It was also the beginning of this station's "Gray Ghost" Series about Mosby. Someone at the station did some research and discovered Mosby practiced law and lived in Bristol before the war. Their promotion for the show was "The Thrilling Adventures of Bristol's own Colonel John Singleton Mosby......The Gray Ghost". I was about ten or eleven at the time and just beginning a life-long interest in the "late unpleasantness" of the 1860s. The Gray Ghost surely added fuel to the fire!

 

[RedRover]

It was the late 1950s when local TV station WCYB, Bristol, Tenn/VA signed on. It was also the beginning of this station's "Gray Ghost" Series about Mosby. Someone at the station did some research and discovered Mosby practiced law and lived in Bristol before the war. Their promotion for the show was "The Thrilling Adventures of Bristol's own Colonel John Singleton Mosby......The Gray Ghost". I was about ten or eleven at the time and just beginning a life-long interest in the "late unpleasantness" of the 1860s. "The Gray Ghost surely added fuel to the fire!

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

I remember the series well. (I'm as old as Dirt.)

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

I remember the series well. (I'm as old as Dirt.)

We should start an "old as dirt" club!

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

We should start an "old as dirt" club!

Hahaha - for sure!

 

[bankerpapaw]

We should start an "old as dirt" club!

I qualify!!

 

[Robert Gray]

This photo was taken on the same day.

 

[Robert Gray]

Colonel John Singleton Mosby ( elbow resting on chair ) poses with sixteen members of the 43rd Virginia Battalion of Cavalry. Mosby's Rangers were highly proficient at guerilla warfare, and raiding Yankee supply trains and outposts. Mosby helped Jeb Stuart plan his route through Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign.
From the Liljenquist Collection in the LOC.
View attachment 539493

A stereoview was also published of this sitting.

 

[Stryker65]

Another 40-series Virginia cavalry battalion, the 44th, was also a force of partisans similar to Mosby's. Half the size and operating in the mountains of western Virginia and West Virginia, the unit operated similarly against Union supply lines for the entire war.

 

[RedRover]

Another 40-series Virginia cavalry battalion, the 44th, was also a force of partisans similar to Mosby's. Half the size and operating in the mountains of western Virginia and West Virginia, the unit operated similarly against Union supply lines for the entire war.

The Thurmond brothers' battalion of Partisan Rangers, 1862-63, and later incorporated into Hounshell's Battalion, the 44th, etc.

According to this history/genealogy page, they were kin to the 20th Century politician Strom Thurmond...

W.D. Thurmond.

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