Right now which will be the final volume in press. Hes received two awards of the Jefferson Davis historical gold medal. Mr. Buckland is a graduate of the university of kansas and had a 22year career in the u. S. Army in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, slightly higher than i got to when i was in the army, and he has many awards. He served much of his career in special forces. You see some of the awards he received during that time period. We thank him for his service. He currently works for the United States government. Lives with his wife maureen in centerville, virginia. They have three sons. The title of his presentation today is john s. Mosby, the perfect man in the Perfect Place. Please help me welcome mr. Eric buckland. [ applause ] good morning. In keeping with the theme on leadership, patrick had asked me to talk about john mosby so we could address a leader at the unit level, down at the tactical and operational level. There is no doubt that john mosby was a singularly outstanding combat commander. I think he is one of the few, if not the only commander during the civil war who actually put together a unit and commanded it all the way until the very end of the war when he disbanded the unit. I cant think of another regiment that was formed where that commander, if he lived, continued to command. In many cases they would have been promoted out of the job. He was a remarkable man, but i will make the case, and its with my title, i believe, the perfect man in the Perfect Place that the stars a lined for John Singleton mosby. He had some luck in his success. A great deal of it had to do with his abilities, but i also think that the stars aligned to a certain extent in what he was able to do and you might say get away with over a 26month period of time. To understand john mosby and who he became, i think you have to understand, know a little bit about his youth. He was a sickly child born december 6th, 1833, and the family did not expect him to live far into adulthood. He, in fact, when he was full grown was perhaps 57, probably closer to 56, 125 pounds. Not a big man. Because of his illness and because of his fraility, he was doted on by his mother. He didnt have to do chores around the house. He spent a great deal of time reading. He became highly educated and he was a very intelligent man, became a very intelligent older gentleman as well, but that opened his world to him. He was doted on at home. Once he began to go to school, i think he had a certain amount of selfconfidence that bubbled over into arrogance. He probably rubbed a lot of his school mates the wrong way. He was a smaller boy and he tended to be picked on. He himself said he had to fight almost every day when he was in public school, and he lost every fight, but hed go back the next day and get right back at it. He would not back down. Youd see that in his partisan ranger career. This was not a man that would back down from a fight. He was courageous. In fact, i often claim that he had ice water in his veins. I know thats a cliche, but this is a man that is as close to fearless as i have ever read about. I think he even exhibited that as a youth. I think he was ambitious to a certain extend. Im not sure if he always knew what direction he wanted that to take, but i believe with being somewhat spoiled at home, being told he was, you know, the apple of his mothers eye, the fact that he was very intelligent, again, he was bubbling with selfconfidence. When you read his memoirs and other things he writes, hes very selfdeprecating to a certain point and then you realize that that may be just a tad disingenuous. I think from the very start mosbys life and as he became commander and as he grew older, it was John Singleton mosbys way or it was the highway. He did not broker people disputing with him, especially as a commander and later as an older man. He challenged people at least two, three, four times to duels after the war. This was an ornery man who had great confidence in himself and as a younger man that translated well into his partisan ranger career but not someone, even though John Singleton mosby did not drink, he was not someone i would have wanted to sit down and have a bourbon with. I believe most of the stories would have been about him and any i might have told about him i probably would have been wrong and he would have corrected me. I think one of the things that encapsulates his personality is an incident that occurred at the university of virginia when he was a student there. He wanted to have a party. He had invited two young gentlemen to come to his party. They were known as musicians. There doesnt seem to be any thought that there was subterfuge in mosbys inviting him. George turpin who was the town bully, a big, brutish type of man already known to cut up one uva student with a knife and cave another ones head in with a rock or a brick, george turbin wanted to have a party as well. He wanted them to come to his party. He heard that mosby had already invited them to his. He began a rumor or stories that mosby had only invited these two men to come to play music, sort of an insult to the two men. Mosby heard about it and in the way they did things back then to turbin, sir, what do you mean by these comments . And turbins comments for all practical purposes was, i will eat you blood raw. He took that literally. This was a dangerous, violent man. He armed himself with a pepper box pistol. I think you can say at that time mosby realized that even at 56, 57 as you would find later in the war, your size and your weight didnt much matter if you had a pistol in your hand. And so he armed himself with a pepper box pistol and eventually george turbin came to the boarding house where mosby was staying. Some movement was made after turbin came to the front door. Whether or not he lurched at mosby, whether or not he began to move up the stairs. He was a few stairs up by the front door. Nonetheless, once he moved he found himself shot in the neck and lying on the floor in a pool of blood. I think at that point mosby did two things that he would later make almost Standard Operating Procedures for himself, and that was, one, to be armed with a pistol, something you control for up close and very personal work and the second thing was once an enemy attacks, you dont sit back and wait for the attack to hit you, you go into the attack mode itself. And he did that with his command later when he began his partisan ranger career. As well as the fact that he was fearless. He was not intimidated by turpin. He took care of business and he would do that later on. You would fight everything in school to the young man who armed himself and was not going to back down when he got into a confrontation. That possibly required some sort of violence. He was arrested for shooting turpin. He was tried and convicted and he was put in jail and it was while he was in jail he studied the law. In fact, his prosecutor is the man who lent him his law books. Mosby would eventually become a lawyer. There were some twists and turns with his case. In the end he was actually exonerated, the record expunged and he was released from jail. He would become a lawyer down in the bristol, virginia, area. And then, of course, war clouds began to loom in virginia. Now, up until the time of virginias secession, mosby was a unionist. He did not believe that the country should be torn apart, but when virginia seceded he made the comment that he had to go with his mother, meaning the state of virginia, and he enlisted in a unit called the First Washington mounted rifles or the washington mounted rifles. That was a Calvary Company formed down in southwestern virginia that would eventually be rolled into the first virginia calvary. His Company Commander was william e. Grumble jones and jones took mosby under his wing. It was there that mosby discovered that he hated camp life. He did not like the regiment of the army. He found that hed much rather be out on picket duty or outpost duty, and he didnt like to be in camp. That will show up later in his partisan career. After the battle of bull run or manassas, of course, the Confederate Army began to go through some transformation. Grumble jones would become the Regimental Commander of the first virginia. He would make john mosby his adjutant. He took him under his wing. He spent a great deal of time with him learning about training his men, how to take care of the men. Jones, as you might imagine by his nickname grumble, was not the most affable man, but he took good care of the men and he looked out for their welfare as mosby would do later on. So mosby became his adjutant. Second in command of the regiment was fitzhugh lee. Mosby and lee did not like each other at all. And when elections were held in 1862 once the confederate soldiers were given the right or the privilege to elect their commanders, grumble jones was voted out, fitzhugh lee was voted in. Mosby did not want to work for lee and he knew lee did not want him his adjutant. He resigned. Luckily for him, he had done some errands, small work for jeb stewart. Stewart knew of him, thought he was intelligent, trusted of him and stewart hearing of mosbys plight back to the ranks from First Lieutenant to private at best and stewart asked mosby to come up on his staff as a scout for a career. And this is when the stars begin to align for mosby where he had the opportunity to prove his work for jeb stewart. One was the ride around mcclellan. Mosby led stewarts ride around mcclellan. He did a couple of other things for stewart that gained stewarts trust in mosby. He knew that mosby reported something, it was accurate, it was true. He could count on him to get the job done, and somewhere along this time mosby, a scout for stewart began to prove his worth, he began to espouse this idea of going behind union lines with a small group of men and annoying the union forces, disrupting their lines of communication. Stewart would continually stiff arm mosby saying, i dont have the people. I cant give you any men to go off and do this. But eventually very late december 1862 after the what was known as the christmas raid when stewart was up in northern loudoun county, mosby with him as a scout, stewart told mosby, im going to leave you behind. Now the quote here from mosby says six, but it was actually nine men that stewart left with mosby. And he told mosby, you can go ahead and try this idea that you have. Lets see how it works out. And his area of operation was to be in loudoun county. Now, mosby almost immediately began to display his ability to pick targets and be successful in what he was doing, so about two weeks after stewart had left with the remainder of the confederate cavalry and went down to winter encampment, about two weeks later mosby rode down with his nine men to report to stewart and bring these nine men back who had been on loan, but with them were about 30 captured union horses, all the tack and all the weaponry that had been with the Union Troopers that had been captured. All the Union Troopers who had been on those mounts had been paroled, but mosby went down with 30 sets of cavalry including horses. Stewart thought, thats pretty good. Im going to give you 15 men now, not for a total of 24, but 15 instead of nine. You go back and see if you can continue to do what you were doing. Mosby expresses these ideas later on in what he wanted to do as far as his mission as a partisan ranger. A great deal is made by some that mosby studied Francis Marian as a child and he did, in fact mosby even refers to it as Francis Marian and whooping in delight tricking the british soldiers. People say that mosby took his tactics and his ideas directly from Francis Marian. Ive read some of the books. To equate mosby becoming the partisan ranger he was from reading those books of Francis Marian would be like many of us taking the Owners Manual of our car and disassembling the engine and then putting it back together. There just wasnt that much information in the books. Mosby just understood Unconventional Warfare. He understood what needed to be done and how he should be operating while he was out with his men. And you see this very clearly, i believe, in these two comments that he made. I told stewart that i would by incessant attacks compel the enemy either greatly to contract his lines or to reinforce them either of which would be of great advantage to the southern cause. It was an economy of force mission. Never, ever did mosby envision taking his force en masse and attacking a Union Cavalry unit. It was hit and run, continue to cause trouble, disrupt them, make them concerned, make them worried, make them pull back forces. Mosby said the greatest thing he accomplished as a partisan ranger was to anybody who has been in the military knows how precious sleep is. If for no other reason, just to escape the drudgery that youre involved in. But oftentimes, you know, if youve been out on an operation, on patrol, sleep is wonderful. And mosby really felt that by his operating at night and coming into places where he was least expected, he caused worry and angst amongst the Union Troopers, the calvary, especially. Again, it was to either push back the union posts that rendered Washington City, to put them back so he could have a little more room to maneuver or to force those outposts to be reinforced. And in order to have them be reinforced, they would have to draw from the main battle area down where the army was confronting robert e. Lee. When all was said and done, he was successful on both levels. He pushed those outposts back tighter into Washington City and they were reinforced. He tied up a good number of union forces because of worry about problems within Washington City. I dont believe anyone ever felt that mosby would capture washington but certainly would get close enough that he began to worry them as far as what things he might do. And so he was successful on both levels. But from start to finish, i believe mosby did things his way. Initially, his chain of command, he would report to jeb stewart. He had a direct shot to stewart. He reported directly to robert e. Lee. Thats the only instance i can think of where a colonel reported directly without anyone in between to robert e. Lee as far as his operations. But mosby did it his way. What do i mean by that . When he had enough men to go from being what he called mosbys conglomerate, which would be 1863 to the 9th of june 1863 when he operated not as a formal unit with no other blessing from anyone other than the fact that he was in charge of this group of people until the 10th of june 1863 when he formalized his command by forming company a, the 43rd battalion calvary. When he was about to form that unit, jeb stewart told him, dont call them partisan rangers. Dont call yourself rangers. Thats a word that has kind of fallen in to refute at this point. Stewart also told him, you will have elections. When you form your new companies, you will have elections. Mosby would have elections but he did it his way, which ill talk about in a few moments. Also, from robert e. Lee, as audacious as he was, i think when all is said and done, robert e. Lee never fully understood what it was that john mosby was doing. And i dont think hes any different than a good number of conventional general officers in todays military. They dont understand special operations, irregular warfare. They dont get it. Or they dont want to get it. Lee was audacious. Absolutely. Did he push the envelope . Absolutely. But i believe when all was said and done, he was a conventional officer and he was also, to a certain extent, a gentleman of the old school who really, it wasnt mosby didnt fight fair and he doesnt fight fair. He fought to win. Did he fight dirty sni dont know. But i think when all was said and done, lee didnt understand what mosby was about and a couple different times general lee complained to stewart that mosby was fighting in too many school groups. The decentralized way that he operated didnt make sense. He needed to mass his forces and pick one big target. That went against completely everything that mosby was doing. He could have three, four, five, six different combat patrols out on any given night, especially as the unit increased in size. 10, 15, 20, 30 miles apart. And disrupt the union lines of communication at several different points at the same time. If he were to mass his unit and only once, remember, he started with nine men at the end of the war, 800 men were officially mustered into the 43rd battalion virginia calvary and almost 2000 men had ridden with him at one time or another. The Largest Group of mini had for one operation was about 350 at the wagon raid in the late summer of 1864. Generally operated in groups of 50 to 100, maybe 150. And lee emphasized to stewart that he thought mosby was wasting his time and needed to bring all of these people together and hit more bridges or more trains when in fact that would have really diluted mosbys effect in this. So he continued to do what he believed was the right way or go about operating it in the way that he believed was the right way to operate. Now, his area of operations, northern virginia, loudoun, was known as the debatable land. This was a great area for an Unconventional Warfare unit to operate within. It was compartmented as far as the draws, the hollows, the valleys, the thick woods, the people in the area were essentially prosouthern. There were some small quaker settlements or communities in northern loudoun county. By and large, the people in the area were in support of southern activities. It was a tremendous area in which mosby was able to operate as far as having a great freedom of movement. In fact, from the time he started operations in january 63 up until the very end of the war, there were only really two times that mosby didnt have almost complete freedom of movement. That was during the Gettysburg Campaign when the union forces began to move down what is todays route 50 as they were chasing lee who was going down the shenandoah valley. Mosby essentially told his men, get out of the way. Those odds were just too great. The only other time he lost his Freedom Movement would be in the fall of 64 when the loudoun burning was conducted. That was after the burning of the shenandoah but two or about two brigades of the union began to burn it. Again, mosby knew his men were outnumbered and moved to the flanks and stayed out of the way. Other than that, mosby had great freedom of movement and that enabled him to be successful. He was never chased to the to where the odds were so stacked against him that he didnt have a chance. You can see here, that was written by Herman Melville in the poem the scout to warden rivalry and it went into mosbys confederacy. It was a true account of a union patrol and throughout that epic poem theres a feeling of mosby and his men lurking off just on the flanks up on that ridgeline and the shadow. And that was a feeling that Union Calvary had heading west from Fairfax County and go through all of the gap and punch into loudoun county. They knew, as id like to say, they have now gotten into oz. It was a nervous thing for them because the rangers would be up on the ridgeline watching them and mosby, it was his confederacy and he was never truly challenged except on two occasions for ownership. He was the only unit northern or southern that stayed in that area for great for any great extent of time. Another tool that he brought to the table and used was the partisan ranger act. When this is distilled down to its very basics, it says that partisan ranger units can be formed, be it calvary or infantry, they will be an official part of the Confederate Army. Officers will be dually commissioned and the men will be paid the same as regular confederate soldiers. The big difference is that anyone in a partisan ranger unit was allowed to keep anything he captured on a raid or during a fight. Weapons, ammunition, horses, tac, whatever it might be. If they didnt keep that, if they didnt want that piece of equipment or that horse, they could sell it back to the confederate government for profit. Now, mosby knew that was a pretty good deal and knew that would draw people in. He also knew once they got into the unit, theyd want to stay. Especially after they came up with their second or third horse or they had a couple pockets full of greenbacks that they were able to take off some union soldier. And so he recruiting tool and as a disciplinary tool because if people got out of line, didnt do what they were supposed to, life in the rangers was fairly easy. Be where youre supposed to be and be there when you get there. Fight and conduct yourself as a gentleman. Other than that, it was fairly easy. But people who would go against the grain somewhere along that line would find themselves gone. Mosby had that power and they were out. There were a good number of men cast out of the unit because of behavior. Again, that partisan ranger act was the backbone to his ability to bring people in and also to keep them in line. The partisan ranger act really broke down in many cases to bands of thugs and briggons. It became a problem for the confederate government and Confederate Army and the partisan ranger act was rescinded. As a demonstration of the recognition of the effectiveness of the unit and the discipline of the unit, two units were allowed to continue on as partisan rangers, mosbys rangers and mcneills rangers in the valley. All other partisan rangers were shut down and they would find the nearest confederate unit and muster in as regulars. Personally, on the personal side of john mosby, not a loud man, not an exuberant man, not a big talker. Mentioned time and time and time again, however, and you wonder how did this man hold sway over this group of pretty dashing, innovative, adventurous young men, especially as the unit began to grow . And it was remarked upon time after time after time that mosby had a set of eyes that would lock you in place. If you did something wrong and he turned and looked at you, you knew it. If you had done something well and he looked at you, he knew it. I dont believe mosby was loved or beloved by his men. Im not certain that a lot of them liked him, but i believe they respected him. I believe anyone who rode with him for any period of time trusted him. He was not going to put them in a position they couldnt get through. And i think to a certain extent they feared him. They saw by his actions in combat that this was a tough, tough, small man possibly but a dangerous man. One of the things, again, common upon time and time again, left quite an impression on a good number of those rangers were his eyes. The fact that that he was in charge, period. There was no question about who was commanding that unit. Another thing that mosby and his leadership and skills made a great effort to use was intelligence. Information about the enemy. Mosby was known to go out on scouts many, many times himself. John munson who wrote a book on the rangers said he was the fastest scouter he had ever seen. 20, 30, 40, 50 miles he would get in the saddle, go out on a scout, come back, take a small break, go back again. He wanted to know where the enemy was, what they were doing. He also had a tremendous knack for picking men who knew the area, who had scouting skills. You see on this slide some of the men who he picked as his scouts who could lead him in many cases if the rangers needed to get from point a to point b and the only known way was on a main road that the Union Cavalry was going to be using, one of these men would know another route where they could be waiting for them because they went in some circuitous route. It helped mosby tremendously from start to finish. Rarely was he surprised by Union Activity but quite often was the union surprised by his activity. They talked about his correct estimate of men. He could meet a man, maybe not even talk to him, simply look at him when this man wanted to join the unit mosby would say, no, i dont want you or, youre in. A perfect example of that is in the case of james yankee ames. Showed up february of 1863 early on in mosbys career as a ranger and wanted to join the small band that mosby had at that time. The other rangers said, no, we dont trust him. This is a trick. Mosby spoke to him for a moment, he said, no, hell be fine. He allowed him into the unit. When all was said and done ames would become a lieutenant under mosby and one of the most trusted, liked, respected in the command, liked, respected, trusted by the other rangers. A great deal is made of mosby not accepting desserters but in the case of richard paul montjoy, theres no question he was a desserter from a mississippi unit. Mosby saw something in him and he came into the unit. He came in as a private and he had risen to the rank of captain and Company Commander under mosby before he was killed. Stewart told mosby he would have elections. Mosby did have elections. He did it his way. When he knew a new company was to be formed, beginning with company a, he would begin to watch the men that would be in that unit and start to figure out who was intelligent, who was trusted by the other men, who was respected by the other men, who was brave and who understood how mosby wanted to fight. He would write down their names and call them in. As soon as the floor is open, mosby would read his list of nominees and close the floor to nominations and ask for a vote. It was only the first time that the vote was not unanimous. The first time there was a little bit of push back from some of the men who felt maybe somebody else should have been considered. Mosby said this is my slate, these are your officers, if you dont like it, can you leave the unit. That was the last time he had a problem. Thats a lot of power to pick all of your subordinate officers. One of the things i respect about mosby is the fact that he did not play favorites. You became an officer, especially a Company Commander or even the two higher in rank based on merit and merit alone. Good examples, the chapman brothers. Sam chapman was two years older than his little brother william. Mosby was much closer to sam and would remain much closer to him after the war. They would exchange letters up until the time of mosbys death in 1916. Nonetheless, it would be william who would become second in command. Dolly richards and tom richards, he was ten years younger than his big brother tom and tom on july 6th, 18634, actually put his head and shoulders in between a blade strike for major lowell of the second massachusetts who was about to hit mosby with that blade strike and richards got in between and took the saber strike himself. It didnt kill him but he received a nasty wound. Nonetheless, it would be Dolly Richards, ten years younger, not bearing a scarf a saber strike he had taken for his boss, he would be the one who would become major and tom would become a captain and a Company Commander but, again, mosby didnt play favorites. Lieutenant beattie was a private. He would rise no higher than a rank of lieutenant. Lieutenant Frank Williams was with mosby very early on and was promoted to lieutenant. As Company Commands were opened up, he was never given a company command. He became the director of the board of supervisors. Mosby saw people he felt were better qualified. Mosby took care of his men. They stayed in private homes. I told you he didnt like camp life. An old first sargeant whose saying was, if you have nothing to do, dont do it here. Mosby felt that way as far as when the men were not out on operations, they would go back to what they called safe houses and stay in private homes. All of the men had money or most of them, either money that they would take from Union Prisoners when they would after theyd be captured or from the things that they had sold back to the confederate government. It was a fairly lucrative business. If you conducted yourself as a gentleman, if you did as you were told, you would stay in that unit. Other than that mosby allowed his men great freedom of movement in things they did when they were not out on operations or expected to be somewhere awaiting operations. Mosby led from the front. Thats something every warrior wants. He expects his boss not to be up there in front of him but he will be there if need be. Mosby was in the thick of just about every fight the rangers had that people have ever heard of. As a result, he was wounded three different times. The first two woundings he was in fact in the middle of small fights. The third wounding he had come back from a scout and was in a house when he was shot but the most impressive thing even about that third wounding, probably the worst that he received in late december of 64, he was back in the saddle in february of 65. And it was a wound that he probably should have died from. His men trusted him, they respected him, as i say, i believe they feared him to a certain extent and he set the example when they were in combat of leading from the front and going through every danger that those men went through as well. They talk about special operations being specially selected, specially trained, specially equipped. The rangers lived and died by two things, the colt. 44 pistol, that was the weapon of choice, anywhere from two to six pistols a piece amongst the men, and their horses. Thats what kept them alive in these odds that they fought against often two, three, four, five, six to one. A good horse would go a long way in the middle of a fight. That was their special equipment. Based on mosbys system of equipment. The ability to be so successful was surprise because of the intel. Speed because of the horses and knowing how to get from a to b on some route that was little known and maybe a short cut. Violence of action, no columns of fours for the rangers in the attack this was a swarm of angry wasps when they would decide to hit a union unit, here they came. Every ranger pistol out, picking a target and then moving on to the next. And superior firepower because of those pistols. I come in with my first, im done, im going to my second. I may go into my third. Those things are what made them so effective and so effective so often and for such a long time over two years. Up and around mosbys confederacy. The rangers, most of my research has been done on the men who rode with mosby. And it was a Remarkable Group of men. The average age i would opine is a little bit younger than the average red confederate regiment of infantry or cavalry. He had at least three or four men who were 14 years of age. Good number of 16, 17, 18yearolds in the ranks. After the war, a good number of those men would go on to become doctors, lawyers, ministers, three or four millionaires, successful businessmen, lawmen, people who would go back to society and contribute at a very high level. I think above and beyond anything else, someone possibly without all the qualities and skills that mosby had, may have been close to as successful as he was. Simply because the quality of the men who rode with him during that twoyear period. Again, he understood it, he got it. The military value of a parti n partisans work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed or the number of men killed or captured. But by the number he keeps watching. That means how long people could he tie up. He was extremely effective in doing that. Almost from the second he began operations, up until the very end of the war. With you thing you may not know was that John Singleton mosby, colonel, Confederate States army was inducted into the United States Army Ranger Hall of fame in 1992. The first class inducted into the ranger hall of fame. He he was conducted from a number of noteworthy individuals. As ive said oftentimes, john mosby being inducted into the United States Army Ranger Hall of fame is not unlike troy aikman from the Dallas Cowboys being inducted into the Washington Redskins hall of fame, on a little more serious note. His abilities, his skills are accepted and they still to this day remain a part of special forces. And ranger lineage in the United States army. That completes my talk, are there any questions . [ applause ] as a reminder, im sure weve got a couple of questions, you need to come down to the microphones, state your name, where youre from and ask your question. Because this is on cspan, so you need to come to the microphones, please. What happened to mosby after please come to the microphones and ask the question. State your name, where youre from and ask the question. Excuse me, sir. What happened to mosby, what happened to his career after the war . Mosby was a lawyer by trade. Postwar there were a few fits and starts, initially because there was some question of whether or not he would ever be paroled. There was actually a question of whether or not he would be arrested, charged and possibly executed for a few things. When all was said and done, he would be paroled, go back to his law business. But then he began to stump for y ulysses grant. And because of that he was vilified in virginia. And he lost a great deal of his law business, because they saw many people saw mosby as a traitor. Mosby thought grant was best for the south. Thats why he tried to get him in as president. He was successful. Because of possibly the fact that he had become a republican, also because of the fact that John Singleton mosby was not the most affable man in the world, not the most friendly man and did not everyone loved john mosby, someone took a shot at him in warrenton. In 1876. Grant by the time grant found out about it, grant was no longer president. Renterford hayes had become president and grant learned about it and said theyre going to kill him, can you help him . Hayes did and mosby would become the u. S. Consul to hong kong for seven years. Once he finished with that. When he got back to the west coast, when his ship came into port in california, he was offered a job by leland stanford. Working for the union pacificer and stayed on the west coast for 15 years. Woe make his way back to Washington City. Where he would work for the department of interior. And for the department of justice. Before i believe he was essentially forcibly retired about 1914, he would pass away in 1916. What kind of role did mosby play in the advance to gettysburg, if any . The Gettysburg Campaign, stewart and the Gettysburg Campaign. And my feelings always been is that mosby is almost shrill in his defense of stewart. Mosby met stewart a couple of times during all the time, middleburg, upperville as the union army came through, as the cavalry was fighting. And mosby had made a recommendation to stewart on what route he should take. Based on afr osk that mory he y stewart when stewart tried to take that route he found it was blocked by union forces. Not that they were set up defensively. Feel that mosby always felt some guilt for that. Thats about the only rule he really played, because as i said, as the union army came through, mosby really told his men to get out of the way. You know, this is bigger than, than we can address. Once everyone had passed through, mosby did ride across the potomac. They got a short distance into gettysburg, or into pennsylvania. And in hopes of finding stewart, but he couldnt find him. And he turned around, came back. So in this case, there was no question of him out front his scouts. The regular cavalry to a certain extent did that mission. Command Sergeant Major joe payne, u. S. Army, retired. What kind of casualties did his units occur during the war . Mosbys casualties were light if you compare them to other units. But as i stated, of all the people we considered mosby rangers, those are men who maybe rode only one time with the rangers. About 2,000 men. Probably close to 200 were killed in action, mortally wounded, executed. Or died in prisoner of war camp. Several hundred were wounded. The numbers werent as accurate on the woundings, because i would contend that being wounded as a ranger was simply the price of doing business. Charlie deere is one of high favorite rangers, went to vmi, he left when he was 16 in february of 63 to join mosby, was shot 12 times. He lived to be 82. Now i have to throw this out because i love this quote, but Charlie Deere was hard as woodpecker lips, another ranger was wounded seven times. One ranger talked about richard Paul Mountjoy i spoke about just briefly or Dolly Richards in a fight has a finger shot away and its simply an ouch and he gets back into the fight. Where they probably lost more people than anything were p. O. W. S. Early on they would be exchanged. They would be paroled. But at the end of the year, or at the end of the war, with those 800 men officially mustered into the unit, a little over 200 were sitting in fort warren in boston harbor, as prisoners of war. So almost 25 of his strength were p. O. W. S, in that one location. Not to be released until june 15 of 1865. It looks like we got two more. David stallsberg, virginia. Did lieutenant ames face any repercussions for deserting new york. Say that kban . Did lieutenant ames face any repercussions for deserting his new york unit after the war . No. He was dead. He actually, he, no, he as i said, initially not trusted. Then accepted, became a lieutenant. He would be killed in just essentially a oneonone little fight along todays route 17, just south of paris, virginia. So, no. What happened, i dont know. Thats a good question. But unfortunately he, he was killed. And one of the neat stories about that is, he was buried very close to where he fell in an unmarked grave. Later on, another ranger named alexander g. Babcock, who is well to do in richmond, had the body disinterred and moved to hollywood cemetery, and actually put a stone up over his grave. More than likely babcock and ames did not even know each other. I dont think, i dont think babcock was in the unit. When ames was in it. And then babcock would be captured. But i think one of the main reasons babcock did it is he was born and raised in princeton, new jersey and came south just before the war. Because he was in sympathy with the southern cause. And he would eventually join mosby. And i think he did all that for ames, to honor a man who had the same view that he did. But yeah, good question. But no, he didnt make it. Appreciate it. [ applause ] more about the civil war on American History tv tonight on cspan 3. Starting at 8 00 p. M. , the annual Gettysburg College Civil War Institute conference. Well hear about the gettysburg address and president lincolns decisionmaking in the civil war. Jim garmin. The chief scientist at goddard. At noon eastern, we join nasa tv as they provide live views of the eclipse shadow passing over north america and at 4 00 p. M. , viewer reaction to the rare Solar Eclipse over the continental United States. On monday, starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. Listen live on the free cspan radio app. After the Union Victory in the civil war battle of antietam in maryland, president lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, freeing slaves in the south. Up next on American History tv on cspan 3, a conversation on the 1862 battle. Our next speaker is one of the great emerging voices in the entire field. When i first met Kevin Pollock, i thought this is one of those guys who is going to be a rock star. He already is. I hear when i travel across the country to roundtables weve got to get more young people involved if we need a poster child for getting young folks involved with the civil war, Kevin Pollock is it. Hes about to growth newspaper a quick way, hes getting married in a couple of weeks that will be a major life shift for him
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.