Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-30

WASHINGTON, May 30-Colonel Johr
S Mosby. the daring Confederate cavalr,
leader died here today in Garfield Hos.
pital. Since Sunday his condition had beer
critical He was SO years old and had
been suffering from a complication OF
diseases.
Colonel Mosby. one of the last of the
dashing figures of the Civil War, was adj.
emired both by North and South-aIthough
he had many enemies In both sections
He was the originator of the Mosby
method of warfare to use only picked men
and to make each man seem hundred "
So dangerous was he to the North that
he was declared an outlaw and denied the
right of surrender at the end of the war.
F Cavalrymen searched for Mosby in the
Virginia mountains until General Grant, ap-
pealed to by Mosbys wife, ordered the
outawry order Cancelled.
STARTED LIFE PEACEABLY.
Colonel Mosby started life peaceably
enough at the Mosby plantation at Edge
mont. Powhatan County, Va, where he
was born in 1888, He was graduated from
the University of Virginia, a full-hedged
lawyer at 10, in 1852.
palled on him. and he started the practice
Of law in 1855. Soon thereafter he mar
ried Miss Pauline Clarke, daughter of
Judge Beverly j. Clarke. who had served
as member of Congress and United States
Minister to Guatemala.
When the Confederacy called for troops
Mosby enlisted with General j. L. B.
stuart's 1st Virginia Cavalry In Stuart
and Mosby the Regiment furnished the
South two of its most famous officers.
Stuart then colonel, became cavalry
leader for the South. and 1t was to him
that Mosby outlined the plan he had con-
celved for Mosby's men.
wASPLIKE CAvALRYMEN.
In the winter of 1S62-1S63 the plan was
completed and launched. Mosby. given a
rowing commission, circled to the rear of
General Burnside. facing that of Lee along
the Rappahannock River. His raid there
was the first of many that took the heart
out of the Union men who felt the sting
OF his little band of wasplke cavalrymen.
1t was Mosby's plan to hit quick and
hard-aIways from behind. when he was
cut off from all help with hostile troops
between him and his people. He was cap
tured once and wounded several times
When he was captured he was taken TO
Washington. II was a matter of regret for
the North that he was soon exchanged and
sent back to ms army.
After the war and after General Grant.
by his n,agnanimous order, had the order
OF outlawry against him lifted, Mosby
started to practice law in Warrenton, Va.
He startled the South when, in 1879, he
voted for Gram. hated Republican, for
President.
oUSTED AS "SENILE"
Virginians could not understand the
motives of Colonel Mosby. Ostracized, he
left Warrenton and went to Washington.
He practiced law until he was made Consul
30 Hongkong. On his return in 1885, he
Iyas put on the legal stan of the Southern
Pacific in San Francisco He resigned and
Hook place in the general land office, in
'svestigating land frauds.
Z In 1905 he entered the Department OF
Justice as special attorney, He was re-
moved ''senile" by Attorney General
Wlckersham in 1910. Coincident with his
removal, he published book on the cavalry
maneuyers of the Battle OF Gettysburg that
seemed SO far from "senile" that it was
adopted as a text book by the War College
Since his removal from office Colonel
Aoshy had made his home with his daugh-
Ter. Mrs. Stuart Coleman, in Washington.