John Singleton Mosby papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Correspondence; Prisoners and prisons; Public opinion; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Battalion, 43rd; Guerrilla warfare; Confederate States of America; Campaigns; Casualties; History
Description: Chiefly correspondence, orders, commissions, reports, and circulars concerning the organization and activities of Mosby's Rangers (43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.).  Documents the guerrilla warfare carried out by the battalion in Virginia.  Contains remarks on public enthusiasm for the war in 1861, the treatment of prisoners of war, casualties, the death of Maj. John Pelham, and the capture of Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton.  Correspondents include Jubal Anderson Early, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Henry E. Peyton, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jeb Stuart, and Mosby's wife, Pauline.
Notes: Open to research.

Chiefly negative photostats.

Photostats produced from originals with permission of Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1921.

Gift, Marvin Hayne Kendrick, 1991.

Confederate army officer, lawyer, and author.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009298