Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-31
COL. M0SBY, TIE FAMOUS RAIDER.
 ENTERS BEYOND
Daring Confede1 te Chief tain Expires in Washing
 ton at Age of 82.

Washington, May 35.-Coi. John
 Singleton Mosby, the most famous;
 Confederate raider of the civi! war.
 died here today, after d long illness.
 lie was q native of Virginia and WAS S2 years old
 i Col. Mosby was one of the most picturesque figures in the capital, where he had lived for many years
 after che wal In spite oi his advanced
 age until a few week. ago. it WAS his
 custom to take many walks through
 part oi the downtown section of tbc
 city. Age had not bent his figure nor
 dlmmed the leenness of the eye that
 commanded the band that made vivid history m the war, and it was seldom
 he passed through a crowded street
 that he was not recognized
 For many yeas the Confederate
 leader was employed at the depart ment of justice, but he left the sar-
 vice several years ago A few weeks ago he became i'll and was taken to Garfield hospital, where he linppqed until he died today. Funeral services
 will be held in Warrenton, Va. at 2 time to be announced later.
 Co., Mosby dared death over fifty years ago when at the head of a band of a few hundred Confederate raiders he rode up and down the Shenandoah valley, capturing outposts, destroyinp supply trains, and cutting off means of communication. 1t has been eSti mated that he often neutralized the force of over 15,O00 Federals in the valley.
 Born in PowhaJtan county, Va, De cember $, 1S33 and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1852. he was practising law in Bristol. Va. when the war broke out and he began his career in the Confederate army. | He proved his daring with such effect ] that he became scout for Gen. J. F. i B. Stuart and led the celebrated raid i around McClellan's army on tho In Richmond year later he recruited an Independent cav airy troop which became famous as Mosby's Partisan Rangers. They be- came night riders and the terror of tho | Federal troops.
 Nest Blillian. Exploit.
 Mosby's most brilliant exploit was the capture of Gen. Stoughton. On 8 i March night in 1863 he, with 30 fol ! lowers, rode through the Federal army to FairfiaX courthouse, only 15 miles l from Washington, where Gen. Slough ton was asleep. Although surrounded by an army said to have been 17O00 strong, the rangers calmly kidnapped the general, his staff ahd many sen tries, and turned them over to the Confederate authorities at CuIpeppe:, having lost q man.
 General Grant once later saved Mosbv from hanging, ansl two foes of the battlefield became staunch friends, Mosby stumped the state of Virginia for Grant daring his presidential cam oalgn, and was rewarded with an ap- continent as consul at Hong Kong, & post which he held for seven years. I When he returned to the United States Mosby called on the surviving mem oers of his rangers and, to his aston- he found that a large per ;entage of them had become minis CTS. In parting their old colcneI said: "Well, boys, if you fight the Devil like you fought the Yankees here will be something to record OF Judgment Day"
 He next became special land agent or the government in Colorado, and rom 1904 to 1910 he was an attorney n the department of justice. The losing years of his life were spent n lecturing and authorship. His home ay across the Potomac, at Warren on, Va. but he wa. often seen in | his white hair, and trong Roman features, making him : 'icturesque figure on the streets or ,< ecture platform. He had written 2 Mosby's War "Reminiscences" "Thc E Dawn of the Real South,' and [ Stuart's Cavalry Campaign" He /: vas also kown as a Creek scholar z
 My military creed" he once de- Jared, "is this, It is better to make s
 good run than bad stand" E
 Emil J. Kessler, Al, vice president ', Y f leather company at St. Louis, was f filled and five other persons hurt, |, wo seriously, when kessler's automo- ~