Col. John Mosby’s battles on U.S. 50 are remembered
Posted: July 7, 2012
The Winchester Star
Col. John S. Mosby and his raiders spent much of the Civil War disrupting federal troops and supply lines in northern Virginia, including Clarke County. This portrait is from early 1865, moments after a standing ovation from the Virginia General Assembly, and about five weeks after he was short in the abdomen, his third time war wounding.
The John Mosby historical marker on U.S. 50 east of Winchester at Route 723. (Photo by Jeff Taylor/The Winchester Star)
WINCHESTER — To look at John Mosby was to underestimate him.
To underestimate the “Grey Ghost” was a mistake.
The Civil War’s great guerilla warrior was small and bookish and so frail his wife...
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