The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-30

did not send my letter directly to him as had promised" I never directly or indirectly promised this editor to write a letter. I did tell you that I would write an answer to the charges against me of cruelty to prisoners. You know what caused the delay in my ding so. The editor says that my letter was written for Southern con- sumption. As the cream of 1t was copied from Major Gibson's report he might as well charge Major Gibson with writing a report to please South
 ern people. The garbled publication in The News-Standard gives the play
 of Hamlet with the Prince of Dem
 mark omitted. You observe that he leaves out Major Gibson's report and all reference to letters I quoted from
 members of the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry that refute the calumnies ut
 tered against me.
 As my character needs no defense in
 the South my letter was addressed to
 you and copies were sent to The Pitts
 burg Post and The Pittsburg Times
 with a request to publish 1t. The
 Pittsburg Times on November q, 1904.
 published my letter to MT. Moss of
 Boston, which elicited the hostile crit
 icisms to which my letter addressed to
 you is an answer. I wrote a per
 sonal letter to the editor of The Times
 requesting him to publish my last let
 ter to you, as I thought it might be
 interesting reading for Pennsylvania
 people.
 The fact of my letter having already
 appeared in The Times-D Dispatch is nc
 reason why The NewsStandard should
 not have copied 1t in full and not gar
 bled 1t. Major Gibson's report and
 General Lees dispatch would have been
 news to it's readers. If I had not
 wanted Northern people to read 1t,
 would not have sent you copies for the
 editor of The News-Standard and also
 for Captain Husted.
 The News Standard omits to publish
 General R. F. Lees dispatch announc'
 ing the affair at Paris Gap between my
 men and the 14th Pennsylvania cavalry which is confirmed by Major Gibson'i
 report. Typewriter copies of my let ter were sent on the same day to Int
 Pittsburg Post and The Richmond Times Dispatch. Afterward I wrote ( private letter to The Pittsburg Times enclosing a clipping with my letter from The Times-Dispatch.
 I wish you would ask the editor o The Times to show you my letter t' him. wanted Northern people t' read 1t. Very truly.
 John s. Mosby. P. S.-I observe that Captain Hustet says in an interview that my meI killed Stone even if I was not present and that the ywere dressed in blue. | the men who killed Stone were dressed in blue they were not my men. Min' was the best uniformed command II the Southern Army. Ask any of th' 14th Pennsylvania cavalry who wer'
 captured at Paris gap if my men wer' not dressed in gray. You have my pic ture taken when was a major: 1t wa in Munsey. But even if my men hal been dressed in Union uniform the!
 would only have been initiating the ex ample of Sheridan's Jessie scouts wht dressed in Confederate uniform. Se Sheridan's Memoirs.
 But what Is Captain Husted's author | ity for saying that the men who kille' | Stone were in blue? One of the let ter writers says that Bill and fou | others went out to forage near Bunke | Hill and that "the four others go away. but Bill was killed" He say | nothing about blue. Quaere-how wa | it that Bill was deceived and his com | panions were not7 The four who raj away certainly didn't think that the, were running from their own people | Captain Husted adds that have faile | to answer the questlon-what was don l with Stone after his capture, as he wa ! never seen afterward. Now one of tn | letter-writers said that Stones bod | was found and that an old negro ma l told them that Mosby's men killed hin If my men killed Stone, they left hir | where he was killed. It was our GUS | tom to let the dead bury the dead. Fl | seems to have been killed near tn
 camp of his own regiment l tustif l everything I did as soldier and hay ] never asked for pardon.