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By James P. Gannon
Rappahannock News Writer
Col. John S. Mosby, leader of a legendary band of Confederate cavalry raiders, set up his headquarters at Woodville in November 1863, according to the wartime diary of a Union soldier who was captured by Mosby and brought to that nearly deserted village in Rappahannock County.
The disclosure that Mosby operated out of Woodville at that time comes in a newly published book that details the amazing Civil War experiences of Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden, a soldier in a New York regiment who served as a mapmaker in the Federal army. An accomplished draftsman and artist, Private Sneden kept an incredibly detailed record of his war service, both in the form of a memoir of some 5,000 handwritten pages and 500 vivid
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