The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby By the close of the Civil War, John Mosby had become notorious as a raider and master of Guerrilla tactics. The illustration at right appeared in the January 21, 1865 edition of Harper’s Weekly, a New York newspaper. The paper included the following description of Mosby: The Rebel Colonel Mosby John Singleton Mosby, long notorious as a rebel guerrilla, was born in Virginia in 1832. Little is popularly known of his career before the war. In 1862 he was a Li…