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John Singleton Mosby, 1833-1916
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1917.
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COLONEL MOSBY AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-FIVE YEARS
His sister considers this a perfect likeness of him
[Frontispiece Image]

[Title Page Image]

COLONEL MOSBY'S FATHER AND BROTHER
Taken shorty before the War. The brother, William H. Mosby, joined the command in 1863 at the age of 18, and was later Mosby's Adjutant. He is shown in the uniform of a Military School.

VIRGINIA JACKSON (McLAURINE) MOSBY
Colonel Mosby's Mother

AARON BURTON (COLORED), AGED 84 YEARS
An old servant and coachman of A. D. Mosby, who went through the entire Civil War as a body-servant to his son, Colonel John S. Mosby. Taken in 1898

This picture is a copy of one taken in Richmond in January 1863: The uniform is the one I wore on March 8th 1863 on the night of General Stoughton's capture
John S. Mosby
[Handwritten note under portrait photograph]

MOSBY RETURNING FROM A RAID

MAJOR MOSBY
Detail from an Historical Picture, Painted in Richmond in 1863 by Guillaume, afterwards in charge of the Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington

WILLIAM H. CHAPMAN
Lieutenant-Colonel and next in rank to Colonel Mosby when the war closed. Photographed in 1863

LIEUTENANT FOUNTAIN BEATTY (at left); LIEUTENANT FRANK H. RAHM (in centre); SCOUT JOHN RUSSELL (at right)
Detail from the painting "Mosby and His Veterans," by Otto Walter Beck
Copyright, 1917

DR. J. WILTSHIRE (at left); MAJOR A. E. RICHARDS (at right)
Detail from the painting "Mosby and His Veterans," by Otto Walter Beck
Copyright, 1917

CHARLES E. GROGAN (at left); COLONEL MOSBY (in centre); DR. W. L. DUNN (at right)
Detail from the painting "Mosby and His Veterans," by Otto Walter Beck. Copyright, 1917

MAJOR A. E. RICHARDS
He commanded Mosby's Men at the Mt. Carmel fight and on other occasions, emulating his dashing courage

COLONEL JOHN S. MOSBY
Photographed in Richmond in March, 1865

WILLIAM H. MOSBY
Colonel Mosby's Adjutant and only brother. Photographed (about) 1867

MOSBY IN 1866

COLONEL MOSBY AT FOURSCORE YEARS OF AGE (1915)