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- January 18 ~ Dolly Richards led attack
on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train near Duffield Station, West Virginia.
confiscating wine, beer, champagne, oysters, cakes, candy, coffee, sugar and other
foods.
- January 30 ~ Attack
on cavalry camp near Charles Town, West Virginia.
- January 31 ~ On or about this day, James Girard
'Jim' Wiltshire led
attack on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train between Winchester and Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia.
- February 5 ~ Bushrod Underwood led
scout and skirmish near Vienna. returning with 6 prisoners
- February 11 ~ Attack on Picket post on
Richmond Road near Williamsburg.
- February 19 ~ Fight
at Mount Carmel Church, Clarke County, killing 13 Federals, wounding many,
capturing 63 men and 90 horses.
- February 1865 MWIA: John Iden
- March 1 ~ On or about this day, raid on
garrison at Williamsburg. On or about this day, Jim Wiltshire led
detachment to the Shenandoah Valley to watch for signs of reinforcements
going to General Grant.
- March 12 ~ Scout and capture of a 10-man Federal patrol in skirmish
at Munson's Hill, Fairfax County. Attack on Federal
patrol near Vienna. Attack on detachment under Lieutenant Abraham
Freeman, 13th New York Cavalry.
- March 18 ~ Scout to the Occoquan area in Prince William County. Rangers
sent to central Loudoun County to 'press' corn from the Quakers.
- March 21 ~ Fight near Harmony.
- March 23 ~ Skirmishes between Upperville
and Middleburg.
- March 27 ~ Scout to near Bunker Hill, West Virginia.
- March 28 ~ Scout to
area around Martinsburg, West Virginia. Scout
between Winchester and Berryville.
- March 30 ~ Attack on block house at
Summit Point, Jefferson County, West Virginia. Fight with Lieutenant
Eugene W. Ferris, 30th Massachusetts Infantry, at Colonel Daniel Bonham's house near
Berryville, Clarke County.
- March 1865 MWIA: George Murray Gill Jr., Charles
B. Wiltshire
- March 1865 KIA:
James
Wesley Keith, John Tyler
Waller, Francis Marion Yates
- April 5 ~ Company H of the 43rd Virginia
Cavalry organized at Loudoun County.
- April 6 ~ Fight with the Loudoun Rangers
at Halltown, Jefferson County, West Virginia killing 2, wounding 4,
capturing 65 Federals and 81 horses.
- April 8 ~ Scout to near Berryville.
Capture of guard post near the Millwood Toll Gate.
- April 9 ~ General Robert E. Lee
surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.
- April 10 ~ Fight near Arundel's Tavern,
Fairfax Court House, Fairfax County.
- April 21 ~ Colonel John S. Mosby
disbanded the 43rd Virginia Cavalry at Salem, Fauquier County, and had his
farewell address read to the men.
Soldiers:
I have summoned you together for the last time . The vision we have
cherished for a free and independent country has vanished and that country
is now the spoil of a conqueror. I disband your organization in
preference to surrendering it to our enemies. I am no longer your
commander. After an association of more than two eventful years I part
from you with a just pride in the fame of your achievements and grateful
recollections of your generous kindness to myself. And now at this
moment of bidding you a final adieu accept the assurance of my unchanging
confidence and regard.
Farewell.
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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