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By Rob Sherwood
Events Coordinator
Blue Ridge Civil War Round Table
Legend had it he would never be caught. He wasn’t. Legend had it he knew every house, road, and patch of woods in “his Confederacy.” He did.
Legend had it he rewrote the rules of guerilla warfare as he invented them.
He did. Fact had it he was hand-picked by Robert E. Lee to tie down up to 20,000 enemy forces in a five-county area of Northern Virginia. Again, this fact is true.
But who really was this Grey Ghost, Colonel John Singleton Mosby? He was a legend in his own time who remains a legend in our time. He was known for his extraordinary courage in the face of an overwhelming enemy. His method was to charge a superior enemy, inflict maximum casualties and disruption, then to melt back into the shadows without a trace. He stayed in the saddle, he slept in secret rooms of “safe houses,” he had special procedures to plan and execute his clandestine raids, he stayed on the run.
He conceived the unconceivable. For instance, on the night of March 8, 1863, with about 30 men, he penetrated the federal lines at Fairfax courthouse and took 33 prisoners, including Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton.
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