The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-25 00:00:00

Mosby, the Guerilla.

The Richmond correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer writes :—." John S. Mosby, the famous
guerilla chief, was in Richmond yesterday. Some-
body has described Mosby as a handsome man in
personal appearance, but he is nothing of the sort.
Of ordinary height, his build is good enough, but
his face is very commonplace, and his light brown
hair, worn unkempt, adds nothing to its attractive-
ness. Mosby's features and expression would impress
you as those of a man resolute and cunning, not
' captiously honest nor viciously cruel, and I suspect
that in the stories of his cruelty he has been some-
what belied. When the life of John Singleton
Mosby comes to be written it will show a succes-
sion of startling personal adventure unsurpassed
by those of any partisan chief on record. That
Mosby was always hanging on the outskirts of
our armies, cutting of our trains, capturing our
stragglers, and harassing us in every possible
way, the people generally know ; but they do not
know that he went in and out of our camps at his
own pleasure, and was never once detected. It is
said (and undoubtedly truly) that while Burnside
lay opposite Fredericksburgh, in the winter of 1862,
Mosby dined with him in the character of a Union
farmer from across the river, and gathered with his
shrewd cunning from the general table-talk much
valuable information, with which he regained the
rebel lines without molestation. Burnside that
winter was literally badgered by Mosby, and de-
termined to capture the partisan, and to this end
sent detachments of cavalry to scour the country
thoroughly and bring him in dead or alive. One
day one of these detachments, led by a lieutenant-
colonel, was going up the Dumfries-road, when
from a house in sight of the Federal line a man
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dressed of
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blue. At the gate were two horses marked U.S.,
and furnished with our regulation saddle and bridle;
and mounting, the captain rode up and accosted the
colonel, who was still marching up the road. The
colonel informed his new companion that he was in
search of this Mosby, and asked if he had
heard anything of him. The captain had heard and
knew to a certainty that an hour before Mosby had
been at Jones's, four miles up the road. Visions of
promotion and newspaper paragraphs dancing before
him, the colonel ordered ' Trot, march,' while the
captain, with his orderly, dashed across a field to a
farm-house to get some milk, he said, before re-
turning to camp. Arrived at Jones's, the colonel
found that Mosby had been there, but also found
that he had departed in the direction of Burnside's
camps. Back the colonel beats in haste, making
inquiries everywhere, but finding no trace. Arrived,
again at the house from which the communicative
• captain had appeared, the woman accosted him,
and this colloquy ensued :--, Woman.—Kurnel,
who was that ere Yank capting met ye hear as ye
was gwine t'other way ?' Colonel.--' I don't know
his name, but he belongs to a Massachusetts regiment'
Woman.--' Yeas ; well neow, aint you sold ? That
air was John Mosby.' Colonel.—' H—, !' And he
rode back to camp and said nothing whatever about
his morning's work, except to report that he had
not captured him. Some of the men did, however,
and that story floated about the army during the
rest of the war. Mosby now is a citizen of the
United States, no better and no worse than the
thousands of other Virginians who have laid down
their arms."

DEATII FROM A FIT IN BATIIING.—On Tuesday
afternoon a young man named Pearson, of Ashton-under-
Lyne, whilst bathing in the sea at Southport, was sud-
denly seized with a fit, and before assistance could arrive
he was suffocated. The water was only seven or eight
inches deep where be was found. An limiest was held at
the Royal Hotel, and a verdict of accidental death was
returned.

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