Various newspaper accounts of the actions of Partisan John S. Mosby – April 1863<\/p>\n
From the Richmond Examiner – April 1st, 1863 The (Richmond) Daily Dispatch – April 24th, 1863 <\/p>\n Val<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Various newspaper accounts of the actions of Partisan John S. Mosby – April 1863 From the Richmond Examiner – April 1st, 1863 DEPARTURE OF PRISONERS. \u2013 Yesterday eight hundred and fifteen Yankee prisoners took their departure Northward from the Libby for \u201chum.\u201d Among them was Baron Wardener, captured by Captain Mosby, who goes back as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDEPARTURE OF PRISONERS. \u2013 Yesterday eight hundred and fifteen Yankee prisoners took their departure Northward from the Libby for \u201chum.\u201d Among them was Baron Wardener, captured by Captain Mosby, who goes back as a civilian, and eleven officers \u2013 five captains and six lieutenants, under the provisions of a special exchange for an equal number of Confederate officers sent South. This morning four hundred more will go down, which deduction will leave about four hundred prisoners still remaining in Richmond, and this number daily being added to. Their transportation to City Point is in charge of Captain V. Bossieux.
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\nNew York Tribune \u2013 April 3rd, 1863*
\nCAPTAIN MOSBY REPORTED WOUNDED
\nWe learn that Capt. Mosby, the captor of Gen. Stoughton, commanded the Rebels in the skirmish near Drainesville on Wednesday morning, and was dangerous if not fatally wounded. Capt. Flint, who commanded the Union cavalry was killed and other officers wounded.
\n(*this was an erroneous account of Mosby’s famous “April Fools skirmish” at Miskel Farm, an account of which I will post later in the month – vhp)<\/em>
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\nThe Southern Illustrated News \u2013 April 4th, 1863
\nTHE TIMES.
\nThe week has been unusually devoid of interest, so far as military matters are concerned. The weather has put a veto upon active operations. On Thursday evening the vernal equinox was ushered in by a snow storm which lasted over twenty-four hours. The depth of the snow has been variously estimated at from eight to twelve inches on a level. On Tuesday, the 17th, Capt. Mosby of Stuart’s cavalry, not content with the capture of Brig. Gen. Stoughton, made another bold dash into the enemy’s lines, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, near Bristol Station, and captured four commissioned officers and twenty-one privates. The latter were paroled on the spot; the officers are now safely ensconced in the Libby prison, there to remain in durance vile, until the \u201cbest government the world ever saw\u201d comes to its senses. Captain Mosby is the son of Mr. Alfred Mosby, of Albemarle co., in Virginia, and previous to the war resided in the town of Abingdon, as a practitioner of law. He has made a most enviable reputation, and is destined to achieve a fame not surpassed by any chief of scouts in the Confederacy, if he [text is unclear] but as cautious as he is daring.
\nIn return for Capt. Mosby’s pleasantries, the exasperated Yankees pounced down upon an unprotected young lady, Miss Antonia Ford of Fairfax, and dragged her to prison, on the pretence of her being a spy\u2014a pretext as barefaced as it is cowardly, and based solely upon the fact that she possessed a humorous commission from Gen. Stuart, who of course has no authority to confer commissions, and gave her this only as an autograph memento of her hospitality and kindness. Comment is unnecessary.
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\nFrom the Richmond Examiner – April 4th, 1863
\nBARON WARDENER. \u2013 This titled Dutchman, who was captured at Fairfax Court House with General Stoughton, by Capt. Mosby, and confined for a time at the Libby prison, has returned to the North on parole, and ventilated his Teutonic spleen by the publication of some of the most bare faced and monstrous lies in regard to the management of the prison and its officers, that we have seen yet. This Wardener claims to have been fed part of the time on the \u201cflesh of defunct mules,\u201d and says, \u201cwhat little beef he or the other prisoners got was putrid.\u201d These assertions bear falsehood so palpably on their face, that they are hardly worth the space necessary to refute them; but we do so in order that truth may go upon record in juxtaposition with the lie. We have on occasion, at the request of the commandant, partaken of the meat that this dilettante German so stigmatizes, and found it excellent bovine, nutritious and sweet smelling, and not a part of that useful quadruped, related to the donkey and Wardener. As for the soup and bread, not better is served on the tables of the first hotels in Richmond. Would to heaven our soldiers were furnished with such rations. \u2013 This same Wardener styles Captain Turner a \u201cbrute,\u201d and says he ordered him about like a \u201cdog,\u201d when everybody who knows the commandant knows him to be the kindest and most humane of men, although a strict disciplinarian.
\nThe Baron goes on and heaps lie upon lie, but we think it only necessary to expose one or two, to prove him a liar of the first calibr\u00e9.
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\nCharleston Daily Courier \u2013 April 6th, 1863
\nFrom Richmond—-ANOTHER DARING DASH OF CAPT. MOSBY.— Richmond April 5th -Capt. Mosby with fifty men was attacked by one hundred and fifty Yankees at Dranesville, VA. on the 1st of April. Capt. Mosby first fire brought down some thirty of the enemy. The rest fled. Mosby pursued and captured seventy-nine, who arrived here last evening. They belong to the First Vermont Cavalry.
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\nThe Indiana Weekly Democrat \u2013 April 9th, 1863
\nDesperate Skirmish with the Rebels
\nLoss on Both Sides
\nOn Tuesday last the rebel Capt. Mosby visited Centreville, with his notorious guerrilla band, numbering about sixty, dressed in Federal uniforms. They left for Drainsville, or its neighborhood, and on Wednesday morning a squadron of the 1st Vermont Cavalry came upon them at a plantation where they were bivouacked. Mosby\u2019s men were dismounted and received our cavalry with a fire from behind fences, which stampeded some of the raw soldiers.
\nThe fight soon became desperate. Mosby threatened his men with death if the flinched, and he himself wounded Capt. Flint five times with his revolver, killing him. Lieut. Grout, of the Vermont cavalry, and seven men, were also killed.
\nOur loss was about sixty killed, wounded and prisoners.
\nMosby was in the house on the plantation when he was surprised, but we learn that he rallied his men with lightening-like celerity, and when our squadron broke, he pursued and hacked them severely.
\nThe guerrilla chief received a severe saber cut on the forehead.
\nWe learn that the Vermont Carbine companies delivered their fire upon the enemy with good effect, and then opened to the right and left to allow the saber companies to charge, but they failed to come up to the work.
\nThe bodies of Capt. Flint and Lieut. Grout were embalmed to-day.
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\nNew York Tribune \u2013 April 20th, 1863
\nReported Cavalry Expedition Under Gen. Stahel.
\nIt is reported in the City today that the Rebel cavalry force which has been hovering around the Bull Run Mountains and Culpepper has been surrounded by an expedition sent out by Gen. Stahel and is or will be captured. [Wash. Rep. Friday]
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\nReports from Washington City.
\nThe Washington dispatches, of the 10th, contain some matters of interest \u2014 among them the following:
\nYesterday morning at daylight, the rebel cavalry \u2014 some of Mosby’s fares \u2014 took Mr. Sherman from his house, near Dranesville, and securing him of giving information to the Federals, hung him.–It is thought that the Government will retaliate for the hanging of Detective Sherman by summarily executing Captain Powers and a civilian in the old Capitol prison, against whom evidence is said to be concessive of their being spies.
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\nPhiladelphia Press – April 25th, 1863
\nArmy of the Potomac
\nMoseby and his gang are in the neighborhood of Warrenton.
\nA WOUNDED TRAITOR AND A RENEGADE
\nSergeant Ames, formerly of Co. L.N.Y. Fifth Cavalry was the scoundrel who deserted to Moseby\u2019s gang of guerrillas and subsequently acted as their guide in their two raids into Fairfax. The sergeant who is called \u2018Big Yankee\u2019, was once deemed one of the best soldiers in the regiment. He once whipped three of Ashby\u2019s cavalry, taking one of them prisoner.
\nWhile on a scouting expedition, they fired upon him from the edge of a wood, and after he had drawn their fire, he retreated. When they pursued him in the open field, he wheeled, and opened fire upon them, compelling two to flee, and one to surrender.
\nCaptain Dye, commissary of the Third brigade, Stahl\u2019s division, was so impressed with the efficiency of Ames that he made him a commissary and quartermaster sergeant. Soured by the promotion of others in his regiment, and poisoned by the promises of Moseby, he deserted to him, and became one of his best soldiers.
\nMoseby says that if all the Federal cavalry were like \u2018Big Yankee\u2019, they would conquer anything. Moseby\u2019s gang have all the plunder they capture and Ames has sent word to his regiment by some returned prisoners, that he has \u2018made\u2019 five good horses since he joined Moseby.
\nInformation reached here yesterday by a lady, a refugee, that this renegade now lies dangerously wounded in a house in Middleburg. If Colonel Deforest of the New York 5th Cavalry should capture the scoundrel he will have a prompt trial and a sudden execution.
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\nRichmond Dispatch \u2013 April 28th, 1863
\nMosby, the Raid maker.
\n–It is often asked, who is Capt. John S. Mosby? The family is a very numerous one and many of his name are in our army. Capt. Mosby is the son of Mr. Alfred D. Mosby, formerly of Albemarle county, but at present residing in Amherst, in the vicinity of Lynchburg. Capt. M. is a very young man, He was educated at the University of Virginia; is by profession a lawyer, and had located himself as British. Washington county, where he is highly and was rapidly in his profession. He married the daughter of the Hon. Beverly L. Clark, of Kentucky, and late Minister to Central America \u2013 Capt. Mosby entered the service as a private in the Washington county cavalry.<\/p>\n