The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-30
Col. Mosby, Confederate Cavalry Leader,
Passes Away al Age Of SO After
Brief Illness in Capital
, Hospital
WAS DASHING FIGURE
DURING CIVIL WAR
Sponsor for "Mosby's Men, Declared
Outlaw and Denied Right Of Sur.
render; 0straczed for Vot-
ing for Grant
By United Press.

| By United Press
Washington, May S0.--Colonel John
S. Mosby, famous Confederate cavalry
leader, died at the Garfield hospital
here today. He was SO years of ase.
He had been III since Sunday.
Colonel Mosby. the sponsor OF "Moss
by's Men" and one of the last Of the
dashing figures of the Civil war, was
admired by both north and south-al-
though he had pany 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 a.
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.
Cavalrymen searched for Mosby in
the Virginia mountains until General
Grant, appealed to by Mosbys wifes
ordered the outlawry order cancelled.
! Colonel Mosby started life peacea-
bly, enough at the Mosby plantation at
Edgemont, Powhattan county, Va.
where he was born in 1888. He was
graduated from the University Of vir-
ginia--a full fledged lawyer at mines
teen-in 1882.
Three years spent at his parents
home palled on him. and he started
the practice OF law In 1855. Soon
thereafter he married Miss Pauline
Clarke, daughter OF Judge Beverly J..
; Clarke, who had served as a member
az congress and U. S. minister to Gauts
emala.
When the Confederacy called for
troops, Mosby enlisted with Gen. J. e.
b. Stuart's First Virginia cavalry. In
Stuart and Mosby, the regiment fur
nished the south two of its famous of
ficers.
Stuart. then colonel, became cavalry
leader for the south, and 1t was to him
that Mosby outlined the plan he had
conceived for Mosby's Men.
In the winter Of 1S62-ls6s the plan
was completed and launched Mosbys
. given a rowing commission, circled to
the rear of General Burnside, facing
!. that of Lee along the Rappahannock
q river. His raid there was the first 1f
many that took the heart out OF ths
Union men who felt the sting of his
little band of wasp-like cavalrymen.
1t was Mosby's plan to hit quick and
+. hard--always from behind. when he
| was cut off from all help with hostils
troops between him and his people.
- He was captured once and wouhded
, several times When he was cspfur.
ed he was taken to Washington. It
/, was matter of regret for the north
J. that he was soon exchanged and sent
r back to his army.
After the war--aud after General
! Grant by his magnanimous order, had
:, the order of outlawry against him lift.
= cd Mosby started to practice law in
! Warrenton. Va. He startled tho south
when in 1872 he voted for Grant .
y hated RepubIican--for president.
= Virginians could not understand this
motives of Colonel Mosby. Ostraeiz-
ss ed, he left Warrenton and went to
II Washington. He practiced law until
n he was made consul to Hongkong. On
his return in 1855 he was put on the
!, legal staff of the Southern Pacific II
= San Francisco, He resigned and tool
Z, a place in the general land office in
vestigating land frauds.
In 1905 he entered the Department
= OF Justice as special attorney. He wa
a removed as 'senile" by Attorney Gen
g erai wickersham in 1910. Coinciden
!. with his removal. he published bool
8 on the cavalry maheuyers OF the bal
. tie of gettysburg that seemed so IA
= from "senile" that It was adopted a
= a text book by the war college.
= Sslce his removal from office. Co
+ onel Mosby had made his home wit
p his daughter, Mrs. Stuart Coleman, /
= Washington,