The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-07
SOME UNWRITIEN HISTORY
WHY GENERAL GRANT AND
 UERRILA MOSBT
Were Such Firm Friends-secretary
 Stanton Issued an Order That Mosby
 Was to Re Hanged When Caught.

The reason for the bond of friendship,
 which amounted really to affection, be-
 tween the guerrilla Col. John S Mosby
 and General U. S. Grant has never been published. Grants conduct toward and
 care of Mosby was most ineXplicable to
 those who loved Grant and were not conversant with the real facts. It seems that when Lee surrendered | at AppomattoX Grant, in his mag nanimity, allowed Mosby and his band of guerrillas to be included in the order | of surrender, and they were to be &C., corded the same treatment as Lees reg ular force. To this Secretary Stanton | vigorously objected, and issued an order | that Mosby was to be hanged when caught. But Grant had given his word as soldier that all who were in the Confederate Army should be equally treated. This little episode was the means of widening the breach between the general commanding the victorious veterans and the impetuous Stanton. Grant was never know to surrender, and in this case it was the doughty sec retary of war who was forced to capitu- late.
 Colonel Mosby after the war settled in Virginia and soon was the lionized son of the Old Dominion until 1872 There was no political gift in her pow CT that she would not have freely laid at his feet, He built up a most lucra- tive law practice and was fast accumu- lating competence,
 In the Grant campaign of 1872 Vir- ginia, having been reconstructed, voted for the first time since the war for president. Republicans were not as plentiful in Virginia then as now, and Mosby had always been a democrat. It was hard for the administration party to make respectable showing. Mosby, never forgetting Grants kindness to him and standing manfully and Loyalty by him when his head was in jeopardy, jumped into the breach and stumped his state for the republican standard bear CT Immediately Mosby the idol became Mosby the outcast. He was forsaken by his friends, his law practice dwn- dled and be was ostraeised and practi- caly driven from the soil of Virginia for the political stand he took in that campaign.
 
 friends, and the last public act of his career was a communication to the in- coming president, Hayes, asking that Colonel Mosby be appointed to repre- sent this country in China. Among the frs appointments made by Hayes was that of Mosby, as Grant had requested
 Again, years after, when Grant was lying upon his deathbed at Mount Mac Gregor, he asked by telegraph that Senator Stanford should call upon him. This meeting was most affecting one, for Stanford and Grant were firm and fast friends. At this meeting Grant asked the senator to place Mosby, wha had returned to the country, on the payrooll of the Southern Pacific. Mosby was immediately placed in the law de- partment of the railroad. Upon the death of Stanford, c. F. Huntington, knowing the above story and also recognizing the worth of Mosby, retain | ed the latter in his position When l died Colonel Mosby was re- tired fro mthe employ of the Southern | Pacific. He is at present in the East
 From some unauthenticated source | this undying friendship which General | Grant bestowed upon Colonel Mosby | has been attributed to other reasons, | but the true story for the first time ap- 1 pears now in print,-San Francisco | Post.