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Mosby was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, on December 6, 1833, to Virginia McLaurine Mosby and Alfred Daniel Mosby, a graduate of Hampden–Sydney College.His father was a member of an old Virginia family of English origin whose ancestor, Richard Mosby, was born in England in 1600 [4] and settled in Charles City, Virginia in the early 17th century.
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Mosby had nine companies, the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, to Captain Richard R. Blazer's one. Mosby was able to defeat Blazer's Scouts due to superior numbers, inflicting 27 casualties. Of the entire number in Blazer's company, 65; 22 killed, 13 escaped and five of these were wounded. [2]
John Mosby may refer to: John S. Mosby (1833–1916), Confederate army cavalry battalion commander; John R. Mosby, member of the Industrial Workers of the World;
John Read was born in Lisbon, Connecticut, on February 6, 1814, to a family of prominent Baptist ministers. The family moved to Oswego, New York, and eventually John and his brothers Caleb and Hiram Read, and his sister Miranda Read Chappell, settled in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the 1850s.
Laura Ratcliffe (March 28, 1836, in Fairfax, Virginia – August 3, 1923, in Herndon, Virginia [1]) was a Confederate States of America spy. Laura's home in Herndon [2] was sometimes used as a headquarters by the Confederate raider John Mosby.
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John Singleton Mosby. The raid on Herndon Station was a part of a series of raids under the command of Confederate Captain John Singleton Mosby and the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion. Mosby and his men were not a traditional army unit, in that the unit was able to assemble to carry out a raid and quickly disperse afterwards.