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John S. Mosby


00:00:53 1 Early life and education
00:04:42 2 Family life
00:06:43 3 Military career in the American Civil War
00:06:54 3.1 1861
00:07:44 3.2 1862
00:09:34 3.3 1863
00:12:31 3.4 1864
00:17:39 3.5 1865
00:19:22 4 Later legal career
00:20:12 4.1 Virginia politics
00:23:43 4.2 Consul in Hong Kong
00:29:25 4.3 Railroad lawyer
00:30:47 4.4 Government attorney
00:33:58 5 Memoirist of the Civil War
00:36:44 6 Death and legacy
00:39:04 7 In popular culture
00:41:25 8 See also



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John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), also known by his nickname, the Gray Ghost, was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Rangers or Mosby's Raiders, was a partisan ranger unit noted for its lightning-quick raids and its ability to elude Union Army pursuers and disappear, blending in with local farmers and townsmen. The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity was known during the war and ever since as Mosby's Confederacy. After the war, Mosby became a Republican and worked as an attorney and supported his former enemy's commander, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. He also served as the American consul to Hong Kong and in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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