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Mosby's Midnight Raid B26 |
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 Picture courtesy of M. Scott Roth
Col. John Singelton Mosby Formed the 43d Battalion Virginia Calvery to weaken the armies invading Virginia by harrassing their rear. Near midnight on 8 March 1863, he led his horsemen undetected through Union lines to disrupt communications between Dranesville and Alexandria. Without losing a man or firing a shot, Mosby and his Rangers rode into and out of the garrisoned village at Fairfax Court House and captured Union Brig. General Stoughton in his bed, as well as two captains, thirty enlisted men and fifty-eight horses. It was Mosby’s most famous raid.
Department of Historic Resources 1997
Rt. 123 N at corner of Armstrong St., on City Hall property Fairfax County Virginia.
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