Grey Ghost

Seems that he taught George S. Patton about guerilla warfare !

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John Singleton Mosby. Quite a life.

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Wow! what a great revelation-you think that's why Patton went in the Cavalry!!!!!

Saw the recent TV show that mentioned that. A couple of other facts. Patton's family had roots in Va. and his grandfather was a confederate officer. Patton's people moved to California. Patton attended VMI ( Virginia Military Institute)for a year before getting into West Point. So there was a lot of civil war and confederate influence.

I read Mosby 's, "Memoirs"as a boy and watched the, "Grey Ghost" TV series, which had spin-off comic books. I think a few episodes are on YouTube

On TV, he carried mock-up Remington .44's, but his own book says he used Colt .44's, captured from the Union. Didn't like the saber and only carried a Sharps carbine for a while.

After the war, President Grant appointed Mosby as US Ambassador to Hong Kong. He admired his former enemy.

Wasn't his father one of the Revolutionary War heroes?

I believe you are thinking of Robert E. Lee's father, Maj. Gen. Henry Lee III, aka Light Horse Harry Lee. Mosby's father, Alfred Daniel Mosby, was born in 1809 and was an attorney I believe.

Mosby was a fascinating character, but the connection that the website makes is a bit of a stretch. I don’t think anyone would connect Patton with guerilla warfare.

Patton’s reputation always was about pretty much the opposite, armored warfare, from commanding the first US motor vehicles in combat during Pershing’s Mexican campaign, his work with tanks at the end of WW I and during the inter-war years, and then WW II of course.

From the Civil War song: "My Home is Across the Blue Ridge Mountains:" "I've been ridin with ole Mosby, I've been ridin with ole Mosby
I've been ridin with ole Mosby, and I never expect to see you any more."

This verse might have been added later, I don't know, but it sounds good anyway.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

I only wish my predessors had of been blessed with ten thousand Mosby's.

I spent about half my childhood on his old stomping grounds in northern Virginia. My mother, gardening one day, found a rusted, twisted, Civil War era spur in the flowerbed. I have it now on display in my living room in Japan.

Who knows? Perhaps it fell from the great man himself’s boot?

Now there was a man with a set of brass casters. And smart.

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Patton's father and grandfather were both VMI grads. His grandfather was the colonel of the 33rd Virginia infantry and was killed at 3rd Winchester.

West Point-The VMI of the North.

Oh, and Patton's cousin was also a famous warrior-Lt General Lewis Burwell (Chesty) Puller USMC.

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My Great Grandmother by the maiden name of James, told me as a little boy her Mizrorah (That is how she pronounced it ) were Partisan Rangers, my Granny wouldn't lie to me, would she ? Some day I need to check out the genealogy,

He probably meant the connection was with the Cavalry. But just gussin.'

And Stuarts and Forrest's to be exact....

I believe I read years ago that one of his ancestors ( a grandfather, I think ) was killed during the war. Don't know if he was Union or Confederate.
Patton always claimed was psychic, and he got his psychic powers from his grandmother.
She reportedly was suddenly overcome with a sense of sadness and dread one day out of the blue, and told relatives she just knew her husband had died somehow, and she needed to leave at once to go and find the body, which she was able to do.

See my post, #13, above. He was a Confederate officer.

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My dad, who passed on to his reward in 1995, was a WWII Marine. Along with a few of his buddies, he spent some time with Puller...

From my father’s memoirs, writing about the battle for Peleliu: “...Twenty-five years later, I knew a fellow, then living in Saluda, up the road, whose uncle was then-general Chesty Puller. Fellow mentioned to his uncle that I had been with him on the island. “Ah,” said the general. “Peleliu. A rough one...”

My dad accomplished a lot in the years after the war. Had a long and illustrious carreer But what he requested, and got, on his tombstone, in addition to his dates, was USMC.