Colonel John S. Mosby's Confederate Cavalry Rangers - A Civil War History

The 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, also known as Mosby's Rangers, Mosby's Raiders, or Mosby's Men, was a battalion of partisan cavalry in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. Noted for their lightning strike raids on Union targets and their ability to consistently elude pursuit, the Rangers disrupted Union communications and supply lines. By the summer of 1864, Mosby's battalion had grown to six cavalry companies and one artillery company, comprising about 400 men. The battalion never formally surrendered, but was disbanded on April 21, 1865 - after Lee’s Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.

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[michaelhussein]

Mosby, Morgan, Forrest, Jones, Stuart, Hampton, and several others gave the Southern Confederacy awesome guerrilla fighters, horsemen, scouts, raiders, cavalry and dismounted cavalry.

[gtracer]

Mosby was one of my childhood heros.
I was pleased to see a road sign in Northern Virginia marked "John Mosby Highway". I thought it was great that Virginia honored its history and heros.

[KillrMillr]

I grew up hearing stories about Mosby and his Rangers. My brother in law's family owns property with his last barracks built onto the only iron furnace the Yankees never found just outside of Harper's Ferry. The payroll train raid was planned at this place. The upstairs barracks still has the racks they slept in, left untouched till this day.

[gerardtrigo]

In a book titled, "They called me the Grey Ghost, " supposedly by Mosby himself, he stated he carried four revolvers, two were LeMat revolvers, and two were "Colt Designs."

[troidva]

After the war, Mosby became active in Republican Party politics and became the US Consul in Hong Kong (1878-1885). His Virginia neighbors turned on him for siding with Republican Presidents Grant and Hayes. He received death threats, his boyhood home was burned down, and at least one attempt was made to assassinate him. Later reflecting on the animosity shown to him by his fellow Virginians, Mosby stated in a May 1907 letter that "There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him."

[jerryumfress]

My gg grandaddy was Joseph H. Powell enlisted in Alabama in 1862. He was in Company H, 5th Alabama Cavalry. He survived the war, lost everything they had to carpetbaggers, and moved to Fulton Mississippi. He lived to the ripe old age of 92, passing away in 1923. He is buried there in Fulton.

[mildbill]

Mighty great history there. Many thanks for posting this video. Sure shows the importance of these partisan units bogging down entire enemy regiments.

[SaxyPhone]

John S. Mosby is my great great great (I think it’s 3 greats?) grandfather, i think its really cool. Especially since he enlisted due to loyalty to his home.

[nicholascrowder]

Cool video, I'm glad you shared it! It's good to see some history about confederate calvary. Most people always think about the artillery and infantry. The calvary had an important role as well.

[panthercreek]

Most Southern cavalrymen, in all various units carried as many pistols as they could. On lanyards, vin saddlebags, in holsters, & pockets. Many also relied on the shotgun. However, there was a substantial number of Mosby' s men who carried the Sharps carbine & used them to great effect against the invaders either in well designed ambushes or in defense.

[brettbradshaw]

It would have been nice if Mosby's capture of General Edwin Stoughton had been mentioned. The link to modern Special Forces should have been made stronger, as well.

[brt-jnkg]

John Singleton mosby later in life with teaching young man in California Calvary tactics. He would teach this young man how to think out of the box and how to use all the knowledge that he had learned in the civil war. That young boy grew up to be general George Patton

[lonnieclemens]

Disbanding his unit before the union could seize it, sounds like something a partisan ranger would do. It has been good to watch this video. Thank you for sharing it.

[apacifistmachinegunner]

My sixth great grandpa was a Texas Confederate raider. We are part of both the Sons of Confederate veterans as well as the sons of the republic of Texas

I myself am a decorated combat veteran of the United States Marine Corps

[SuperBullyone]

God Bless Mosby and the Rangers. God bless the Confederacy

[Hercules-vm]

That opening statement is why I hold great respect for the Confederate soldiers. Most didn't fight for slavery. Indeed many of them opposed it. They fought to protect their homes even though quite frankly they brought it upon themselves by attacking Fort Sumter and starting the war in the first place.

[benpaxson]

My great-great-great grandfather's nephew rode with Mosby, Company B.

[slainteron]

I'm Sorry but 8 minutes is not enough on this man and his actions

[johnstevens]

Thank you for making this. I'm related to him.

[stVARifleman]

Every time I hear him say Mosby's Raiders, I cringe, it is Mosby's Rangers. They were Partisan Rangers of the 43rd VA Cav BN, true soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia. Unlike the Quantrill's Raiders such as Bloody Bill, James brothers, and Younger brothers who were not true Confederate Soldiers but irregular guerrillas or bushwhackers.