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January 1 ~ On or about this
day, 9 men including Fountain 'Fount' Beattie were detailed to
John Singleton Mosby to stay behind in Northern
Virginia and carry out partisan operations.
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January 5 ~ Attacks on
picket posts near Frying Pan Church and near Cub Run on Little River
Turnpike.
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January 6 ~ Attack on picket
post at Chantilly, Fairfax County.
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January 18 ~ On or about
this day 15 men were detailed to
John Singleton Mosby including
Fount Beattie, William Thomas Turner, William Lyle Hunter Jr.,
John Charles Buchanan, Christian Gall, Edward S. 'Ned' Hurst and William
A. Keys.
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January 26 ~ Attack on
picket post at Chantilly Church, Fauquier County.
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January 27 ~ Skirmish at
Middleburg, Loudon County.
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February 1 ~ Attack on
picket at Frying Pan Church, Fairfax County.
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February 7 ~ Fight with
Federal cavalry near Dranesville to recover medical supplies and horse of
Dr. Francis T. Drake.
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February 10 ~ James F. 'Big
Yankee' Ames deserted Company L 5th New York Cavalry.
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February 11 ~ Scout to
Frying Pan Church area. Mosby warned
of a Federal trap by
Laura Ratcliffe.
Union deserter James F. 'Big Yankee' Ames joined command
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February 25 ~ Attack outpost
of 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry at Thompson's corner near Germantown, Fairfax
County.
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February 26 ~ Attack on
picket post at Thompson's Corner northeast of Chantilly.
- March 2 ~ Fight at Aldie, Loudon County.
- March 9 ~ 'Fairfax Court House Raid'.
- March 13 ~
Antonia Ford
arrested for aiding Mosby in the Fairfax Court House Raid and sent to Old
Capitol Prison.
- March 17 ~ Attack on picket
post at Herndon
Station, Fairfax County.
- March 19 ~
John Singleton Mosby promoted
to Captain.
- March 20 ~ Skirmish at Middleburg.
(Approximate date)
- March 23 ~ Skirmish near Chantilly,
Fairfax County.
- April 1 ~ Fight at Miskel's farm.
- April 4 ~ Hatcher Brothers and James F.
'Big Yankee' Ames skirmish with Federals at Hatcher's Mill.
- April 18 ~ Samuel P. Dushane's scout to
Dranesville.
- April 19 ~ Scout to near Fairfax Court House.
- April 22 ~ Scout to near Harpers Ferry.
- April 25 ~ Scout to Difficult Run, Fairfax County.
- April 26 ~
John Singleton Mosby promoted
to Major.
- April 28 ~ Skirmish between Upperville
and Rector's Crossroads.
- April 29 ~ Fight at Hopewell Gap.
- April 1863 MWIA:
Thomas Baynton Turner
- April 1863 KIA: Ranger Davis, Zachariah Mayhugh
- May 3 ~ Raid on Warrenton Junction.
- May 6 ~ Fight at Blakeley's Grove
School House near Upperville.
- May 10 ~ Bridges on Orange & Alexandria
Railroad near Catlett's Station burned.
- May 12 ~ Scout to Chantilly.
- May 13 ~ Skirmish near Upperville.
- May 16 ~ Fight at Berry's Ferry, Clarke
County, [West] Virginia.
- May 17 ~ Fight at the Lynn farm near
Dumfries.
- May 19 ~ Attack on Orange & Alexandria
Railroad train at Catlett's Station. Burning of bridge over Cedar
Run near Catlett's Station.
- May 20 ~
Antonia Ford released
from Old Capitol Prison.
- May 22 ~ Scout to near Catlett's
Station.
- May 30 ~ Raid on Orange & Alexandria
Railroad train at Catlett's Station. Skirmish with 1st Vermont Cavalry and 5th New
York Cavalry near Greenwich
in which Mosby's horse ran against a tree bruising Mosby's face and losing
him his hat.
- May 1863 MWIA: John Glandell, Bradford Smith Hoskins,
Alexander Lyle,
Gillespie Robbins Thornwell
- June 4 ~ Fight at Frying Pan Church,
Fairfax County.
- June 9 ~ Federal raid on the Hathaway
residence to capture Mosby. The Federals found Mrs. Mosby and Mosby's spurs, but failed to discover Mosby on
the branch of a
large walnut tree outside an upper story window.
- June 10 ~
John Singleton Mosby formerly
organized command into 43rd Virginia Cavalry, Company A. Attempted capture by
Rangers Richard
Lewis, Frank Stringfellow and Channing Smith of U.S. General Crawford headquartered at
Lewis' mother's home near New
Baltimore.
- June 11 ~ Raid on Seneca Mills, Maryland.
- June 12 ~ Skirmish at Middleburg.
- June 17 ~
Capture of
General Hooker's dispatches at the Almond Birch house near Arcola.
- June 19 ~ Scout to near Herndon.
- June 22 ~ Fight at Ewell's Chapel.
Attack on wagon train on
Little River Turnpike near Gum Spring, Loudon County.
- June 25 ~ Scout to Pleasant Valley
on Little River Turnpike.
- June 28 ~ Raid on Mercersburg,
Pennsylvania.
- June 1863 KIA: George H. Whitescarver
- July 9 ~
Skirmish near Falls
Church.
- July 12 ~ Wagon
train captured near Circleville, Loudoun County.
- July 15 ~ Scout to
Mrs. Lewis’ near Warrenton.
- July 20 ~ Skirmishes at Benton's Ford
near Mountville, Loudon County.
- July 21 ~ Raid on three sutler wagons
near Mt. Gilead, Loudon County.
- July 24 ~ Captured a few prisoners and
33 mules near U.S. General Howard's headquarters near New
Baltimore, Fauquier County.
- July 29 ~ Capture of a number of wagons near Padgett's
Tavern, Fairfax County.
- July 30 ~ Fight at Mt. Zion Church
near Aldie, Loudon County ['Ice Cream Raid']. Raid on wagons at Fairfax Court House.
- July 31 ~ Attack on Colonel Charles
Russell Lowell's 2nd Massachusetts
Cavalry near Arcola Post Office.
- July 1863 KIA:
James Montgomery Lawrence
- August 3 ~ Wagon raid near Fairfax Court
House.
- August 6 ~
Attack on
Wagon Train between Annandale and Alexandria.
- August 24 ~ Fight at Gooding's Tavern
near Annandale in which Mosby was wounded in the thigh and side.
- August 1863 KIA: Charles Eltinge Shriver.
- August 1863 MWIA:
Norman E.
Smith
- September 5 ~ Raid on picket post at
Goskin's Mill near Waterloo in Fauquier County..
- September 16 ~ Raid on sutler wagons and
Union stores at Fayetteville, Fauquier County.
- September 22 ~ Fight near Bealeton
Station on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad.
- September 28 ~ Attempted capture of
Virginia Governor Francis H. Pierpont at Alexandria.
- October 1 ~ Company B of the 43rd VA
Cavalry organized at Scuffleburg.
- October 4 ~ Raid on Federal cavalry camp at Lee's Ridge near Warrenton
Springs ['The Billie Smith Raid'].
- October 11 ~ Raid on wagon train near
Padgett's west of Alexandria.
- October 12 ~ Attack on rear guard of
Federal patrol at Upperville.
- October 16 ~ Attack on wagon train near
Chantilly, Fairfax County.
- October 17 ~ Scout to near Chantilly and
capture of outpost, including part of General Meade's bodyguard, near
intersection of Ox Road and Little River Turnpike in Fairfax County.
- October 22 ~ Fight at Chichester Mills,
Fairfax County, in which two Rangers are killed and two captured.
- October 25 ~ Skirmish near Centreville.
- October 26 ~ Raid on wagon train west of
New Baltimore on the Warrenton Turnpike in Fauquier County.
- October 31 ~ Capture of two New York
Herald correspondents, L.A. Hendricks and George H. Hart, at McCormick's
house near Auburn in Fauquier County.
- October 1863 KIA: Charles Mason, John
Underwood
- November 3 ~ Scout to Catlett's Station
on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad.
- November 6 ~ Raid on wagon train near
Warrenton.
- November 14 ~ Scout to Fairfax County and capture of 2 sutler wagons.
- November 17 ~ Attack on picket headquarters commanded by Captain Alexander Davidson,
Company F, 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry.
- November 21 ~ Raid on wagon train near
Bealeton Station on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad.
- November 26 ~ Raid on wagon camp at Brandy Station
capturing 150 horses and mules ['First Culpeper Raid'].
- November 27 ~ Fight near the Hazel
River, Culpeper County, resulting in capture of
11 pickets from the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry ['Second Culpeper Raid'].
- November 30 ~ Attack on Union
outpost at Orange & Alexandria Railroad bridge over Licking Run.
- December 7 ~ Company C of the 43rd
Virginia Cavalry organized at Rectortown.
- December 9 ~ Attempted capture of 2nd Massachusetts
Cavalry outpost at the intersection of the Lewinsville Road and the
Leesburg-Alexandria Turnpike.
- December 21 ~ Attack on picket post of
2nd Massachusetts Cavalry overlooking Hunter Mill Road and Hunter Station Road.
- December 24 ~ Raid on Guilford Station
on the Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad.
Information taken from
sources noted below. As more sources have become available for research, this
information may be updated in the future. This is by no means a full
accounting of the exploits of Mosby's Rangers but rather a starting point
for further research. MWIA is Mortally Wounded in Action; KIA
is Killed in Action.
- Evans, Thomas
J. and Moyer, James M. Mosby's Confederacy: A Guide to the Roads and
Sites of Colonel John Singleton Mosby. Shippensburg PA: White
Mane Publishing Co., 1991.
- Jones,
Virgil Carrington. Ranger Mosby. Chapel Hill NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
- Keen, Hugh C. and Mewborn,
Horace. 43rd Battalion Virginia
Cavalry Mosby’s Command. Lynchburg, VA: H. E.
Howard, Inc., 1993.
- Williamson,
James J. Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third Battalion
Virginia Cavalry from Its Organization to the Surrender. New York:
Ralph B. Kenyon, 1896.
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