Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
Famous Confederate Freet
Ii in Civil War Sue
umbs to Illness.
.JCE SAVED FROM
MOOSE BY GRANT
Mosby Led Night Riders In Many.
Daring Exptoits-kidnapsd Federal
General and STAFF From Within Linss
Of Northern Troops-camPaisnsA
For Grant For President At Close oS
War and Was Givsn High Position.

Washington. May 30.-col. John s.
Mosby, the most famous eonfederate
raider Of the civil war. died here to-
Gay after long illness. He was
native Of Virginia and was 81 years
old. t,@.
Colonel Mosby's death, his physi.
cians said, wue due solely TO old age.
and he was conscious and Interested
on what was going on about him un-s
til an hour before he passed away
Until six months ago, when he went
into u decline. he was u familiar ffgurs
about the streets Of the capital
He will be buried at his ancestral
home at Warrenton, Va, probahly
Thursday, and some survivors OF has
noted command will be his pall bear-
ers. His death on Memorial Day WAS
affecting to many.
Made Famous by Raids.
Colonel Mosby dared death Oyer NJ
ty years ago when at the head Of y
band OF a few hundred confet1eratA
raiders he rode up and down the Shens
andoah valley. capturing outpoets. de-
stroying supply trains. and cutting OF
means Of communication. II has been
estimated that he often neutraitseds tho
force OF over $1,000 federals In the val-y
ley. 5s8Gz &
Born in Powhattan county, Virginia.
Dec s. 1899. and graduated from ths
University of Virginia In 1885,, he was.
practising law in Bristol. Va. whef the,
war broke out and he began is,eareere
in the confederate army. he proyed
his daring with such effect thai he he
came q scout for Gen. ]. E 3. stuart
and led the celebrated raid around Nr-t
Clellan's army on the ChictnhoMiny..
/ In Richm0nd- - year latar ;hasrecfntke4
an independent cavalry troop which ~.
tcame famous as Mosby's sPxrtteAn
Rangers. They became night riders
and the terror Of the federal tr1opA.
Mosby's most brilliant exploit wae
the capture of General Stought0n. On
a March night in 1863 he. with thirty
followers. rode thru the federal army
to Fa!rsax co.r. hcass. only n iiftteaih
miles from Washington. where Gem
Stoughton was asleep. AIeho surrounds
ed by an army said to have been 1900
strong. the rangers calmly kidnapped
the general, his stan and many sens
tries. and turned them over 10 the con.
federate authorities at Culpepper with
out having lost a man. ,..52 E N a
Saved From Hanging by Grant.
General Grant once later saved Mos
by from hanging. and two foes Of the
battlefield became staunch friends.
Mosby stumped the state Of Virginia
for Grant during his president tial cam
paisn, and was rewarded with AN tap-
pointment as consul at Hong Kong. q
post which he held for seven years.
When he returned to the United States.
Mosby called ON the surviving members,
OF his rangers and. to his astonishment.
he found that "a large percentage OF
them had become ministers. lnpartinY
their old colonel said: well. boys. if
YOU fight the devil like you fought the
Yankees there will be something to
rec ord on Judgment day"
He next became special land agent
for the government in Colorado. and
| from 1904 to 1910 he was an attorney
| in the department of justice. The
closing years OF his life We're spent in
| lecturing aud authorship. His home
lay across the Potomac, at Warrenton.
Va, but he was often seen In WASH
inston. his white hair and strong
Roman features. making him a pictur-
esque figure on the streets or lecture
platte He had written ''Mosby's
War "reminiscences" The Dawn of the
; Real South and ''Stuart's Cavalry
Campaign" He was also known as q
Greek scholar. sArt. u
my military creed" he once declared.
"is this: 1t is better to make a good
| run than a bad stand" =. 2