Mosby's Rangers +Bonus Books- 43rd Battalion VA Cavalry

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Mosby’s Rangers
A Record of the Operations of the
Forty-Third Battalion of Virginia Cavalry
From Its Organization to the Surrender
By James J. Williamson
(of Company A)
Published 1909,
554 pages,
Illustrated, searchable
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Bonus Book #1 –
Memoirs of
Col.
John S. Mosby
Edited By Charles Wells Russell
Published 1917,
414 pages
Illustrated, Indexed
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Bonus Book #2 –
Partisan Life
With
Col.
John S. Mosby
By Major John Scott
Published 1867,
492 pages
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Bonus Book #3 –
Mosby’s Men
By John H. Alexander
Published 1907,
180 pages
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Bonus Book #4 –
Mosby’s War Reminiscences
By John S. Mosby
Published 1887,  260 pages
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Bonus Book #5 –
Mosby’s Rangers
By James J. Williamson
Published 1909,  554 pages
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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 strikes on Union targets and their ability to consistently elude pursuit, the Rangers disrupted
Federal communications and supply lines.
The 43rd Battalion was formed on June 10, 1863, at Rector's Cross Roads, near
Rectortown
,
Virginia
, when
John S. Mosby formed Company A of the battalion. Mosby was acting
under the authority of General Robert E. Lee, who had granted him permission to raise a company in
January 1863 under the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862, in which the Confederate Congress
authorized the
formation of such units. By the summer of 1864, Mosby's battalion had grown to six cavalry companies and
one artillery company, comprising about 400 men. After February 1864, the Confederate Congress revoked
the authority of all partisan units, except for two, one of which was the 43rd Battalion. The battalion never f
ormally surrendered, but was disbanded on April 21, 1865, after General Lee surrendered the Army of
Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, but not before attempting to negotiate surrender with
Major General Winfield S. Hancock in Winchester, Virginia.
“This book is really the result of the habit of keeping a
diary. During my imprisonment in the spring of 1863, in
the Old Capitol prison in
Washington
, I kept a diary as a
means of whiling away the tedious hours of prison life.
After being exchanged, I joined Mosby in April, 1863, two
months before the organization of Company A, his first
company, and was with him until the surrender. The habit acquired while in prison still
clung to me when I entered
upon the active life of a ranger.
It then became a pleasure
to jot down the events that came under my observation or
that I heard related by my comrades or others. I soon
began to feel that my work was not completed until I had
noted down briefly what had happened during the day.
In this way my diary was kept sometimes written by the
wayside, sometimes by the camp-fire, sometimes in the quiet
of the fireside.”
CONTENTS - Memoirs
Introduction vii
I Early Life . .1
II The War Begins . . .11
III A Private In The Cavalry .... 22
IV Johnston's Retreat From Harper's Ferry . 33
V Recollections or
Battle
Of
Manassas
. 47
VI The Strategy Of The
Battle
Of
Manassas
. 55
VII About
Fairfax Court
House ... 86
VIII Campaigning With Stuart .... 99
IX The Campaign Against Pope . . . .122
X First Exploits As A Partisan . . . 146
XI The Raid On
Fairfax
168
XII Stuart And The
Gettysburg
Campaign . 201
XIII The Year After
Gettysburg
. . . 258
XIV The Campaign Against
Sheridan
. . .283
XV The Greenback Raid 312
XVI Last Days In The Valley .... 327
XVTI Final Scenes 353
XVIII In Retrospect 365
XIX My Recollections Of General Lee . . 374
XX My Recollections Of General Grant . 383
Index 401
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