John Singleton Mosby in West Virginia: Civil War West Virginia

[@jeffreylc]

I actively seek out all of Dennis Frye’s videos. He’s the BEST!

[@donaldharrell9599]

Glad you are back

[@tamiramos5873]

I bet you could cover certain locations from Romney & Moorefield, WV through to Cumberland, MD. I believe Mosby came through here too. I know there is a wayside marker at our park and ride right down from the intersection of RT 220 and I-68. There are many smaller locations as well. Do they deserve mention by one of the great battlefield guides out there? Apparently, we had the most NW battle of the Civil War...even though it was only about 5 hours. It would be pretty cool to do a series where you cover all the battles of each state - one at a time!

[@JimmyChumley]

One of my Heroes.

[@johnfoster535]

Mosby was valued highly by veteran cavalry commander Robert E. Lee. Mosby, the " Gray Ghost" of the Confederacy would visit friends in California many years after the Civil War....friends who had moved away from Virginia, not wanting to live under " Yankee" domination.....especially as they gave two of their best men's lives in battle at Winchester and in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. Mosby was an old man then.....but, he would often fill the mind of a young boy with stories of his grand father and great uncle in battle, as well as tales of Jeb Stuart and Robert E.Lee himself. Mosby and the young boy would get on horses and "re-create" famous battles and the youngster was thrilled and inspired by the tales the old man told of his Confederate ancestor's bravery and heroics........this inspiration would carry the boy to his destiny.......because the boy was George S. Patton.

[@johnfoster535]

@MAC SORRY !!! you LOSE !!!!! During Lee's long 30 year service in the U.S. Army he was given many duties : from engineering the flow of the Mississippi in St. Louis with his friend Talcott, to building a fort in New York, to being Superintendent at West Point . However, like his famous father "Lighthorse" Harry Lee......who was George Washington's favorite cavalry commander......Robert ALSO COMMANDED cavalry before the Civil War, while in the U.S. Army . As wikipedia describes : " Lee was enormously relieved to receive a long-awaited promotion as second-in-command of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Texas in 1855. It meant leaving the Engineering Corps and its sequence of staff jobs for the combat command he truly wanted. He served under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston at Camp Cooper, Texas; their mission was to protect settlers from attacks by the Apache and the Comanche." There.........you LOSE !!!!!!

[@barbiquearea]

Despite mostly having fought on horseback, neither Mosby nor his men went into battle using sabers. They instead fought with revolvers on horseback as Mosby found swords to be practically useless if not detrimental in an era where firearms were becoming more accurate and multiple shots before needing to reload.

[@mshapiro64]

Thank you for keeping American Civil War history alive.

[@Qigate]

Thank you for a great video on Mosby and his men. When I lived in Virginia, I loved to drive up into Mosby's haunts from The Plains and Marshall all the way up to Harpers Ferry and Loudoun Heights. I never knew about the markers in Jefferson County WV. Thanks for sharing and letting me visit that beautiful area once more.

[@michaelmorgan9824]

Hey Mike Great name! Also great videos guys!!

[@Qigate]

@@michaelmorgan9824 It is... it has served me well :)

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

... and I know every deer path in those counties.

[@brandonneely9982]

Mosbys Rangers RLTW . We had to learn all about Mosby and mainly Rogers Rangers from the Revolution and we had to memorize their general orders when I went into the 75th Ranger Regiment. Its still a big part of the modern Rangers.

[@hscollier]

Another excellent, informative, on-site video! Thanks again!

[@SouthernGentleman]

Love and respect for Civil war veterans!

[@anthonychavez1906]

I wish I could have met a civil war veteran.

[@mannyfox8089]

Gray Ghost is a legend!

[@Aj-dl3hw]

Ya I guess nearly every adult in the town I’m from knows that term

[@bigjimslade6250]

When you get to the battlefields in Richmond & Munfordville check out the red sunset granite Texas monuments at Richmond for the Texas troops that played an important role in that battle & at Rowletts Station for ColonelTerry who led Terry’s Texas Rangers & fell on the battlefield near Munfordville. The marker at Richmond was believed to be the first placed by the Texas State Historical Society outside of Texas. When Terry fell, the state legislature ofTennessee adjourned & escorted his body to lie in state in Nashville. Terry was a native Kentuckian

[@markleach116]

Love these videos!

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

John Singleton Mosby is my Civil War Hero and has been for many years. I grew up in Manassas VA and later lived in Winchester and also Warrenton for a few years. Colonel Mosby is buried in the Warrenton Town Cemetery and is within sight of the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office and Jail. I slept one night of my misspent youth on top of Mosby's grave with a small bottle of Cognac and a heart full of love for my Old Dominion. True story. I now live in Texas and it truely pains me to see the draconian gun laws that have just been pushed through by Virginia Governor Jolson and his ilk. Please Join and Support Virginia Citizens Defense League. Thanks, Garry & Dennis ! ... and keep 'em comin' !!!!

[@bobbyleewv]

Why, if you are in West Virginia, did you do a video on Mosby rather than McNeill's Rangers, who were from West Virginia. Their greatest escapade, the capture of 2 Union generals behind Union lines, was so audacious that Mosby himself said "This surpassed anything I had ever done."

[@hokehinson5987]

The grey ghost rules even today!

[@Fixingtodraw]

I am very surprised those memorials haven’t been vandalized or torn down.

[@richardwillett]

You see a number of these markers between Halltown and Sheperstown on the way to Sharpsburg. I always thought they where marking A.P. Hill's line of march to Sharpsburg!

[@Pwrcritter]

U could do several Mosby episodes if u wanted..

[@Bingbing611]

Turner Ashby is a distant relative of mine

[@gale212]

Is he an Ashby of Ashby Gap near Paris VA?

[@erniebarney9386]

Glad to know about these monuments. Unfortunately the Obelisk on the Plaza in Santa Fe NM that commemorated the Federal soldiers who served in New Mexico (Battle of Glorieta Pass and other battles) and throughout the West was torn down and destroyed by protestors on Indigenous Peoples Day (Columbus Day). A real special piece of history was lost.

[@lumpylumpy3931]

Thank yalll

[@Aj-dl3hw]

He is a very well known guy in warrenton va because he lived in the town. The house that is most popular that he lived in is on Main Street. His wife died in labor in the home. There is a statue thing for him.

[@mannyfox8089]

Statue thing eh?

[@gandamack1900]

JSM was The Man...James Gang wasnt crap compared to Mosby😎👍

[@paulstieler4468]

Epitome of an Officer and Gentleman

[@yolonutz7363]

Im from Berkeley co West Virginia you should do a video on winchester va it changed hands more than anywhere else in the war. This feller is in the most contested area in the civil war thanks for the credit to our great state.

[@philmccracken7520]

Western Virginia is not legal state.

[@teddyhaynes9876]

Oh but it is , what ya gonna do about it ?

[@TheLostProduct]

Very awesome and very knowledgeable. Please, when you get to my home town (Philippi) will you give an accurate detail of the routes they ran through to get to Laurel Mtn. Then to Rich Mtn.? Also.. The approach from Grafton, WV (north) etc.. What hillside were the artillery on exactly when they fired onto Philippi. From my studies, the confederate's original route were going to be from US Rt. 50 through Rt. 38 (current) and into philippi. However, they changed routes and came across the northern side of rt. 38 and dropped into philippi. Any confirmation? Also.. Is it true.. That Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis met inside the infamous covered bridge (that has been a huuuuge question).

[@TheLostProduct]

Extended: There is a story of 2 young boys hiding inside of the bridge and witnessing Abe and Jeff meeting inside of that bridge. Can you bring this to light?

[@TheLostProduct]

Also extended.. Philippi was originally called: "Anglin's Ford".. Can you give any history on that and how it became or why? As I am an Anglin from there. What is the significance of the Anglin's during the invasion (if any)?

[@sparkey6746]

Thank you.

[@UCVibes]

So the United States Army lost this battle?

[@rgsnr8702]

being a brit ,just what were the confederates fighting against

[@rgsnr8702]

@Dave Ad mine was a serious question ,can you expand

[@Aj-dl3hw]

@@rgsnr8702 if your still wondering it started because of the slavery disagreement and they were fighting against the USA or the union. The states succeeded from the USA in 1860-1861

[@Jemalacane0]

@@Aj-dl3hw Slavery was not the only issue. Even if it were, most confederates fought to protect their states not to maintain slavery. Confederate General Patrick Cleburne want to emancipate all blacks provided blacks fought for the confederacy and provided the confederacy were successful.

[@Jemalacane0]

Just a few things from Missouri's ordinance of secession: Speaking about the federal government: _"By invading with hostile armies the soil of the State, attacking and making prisoners the militia whilst legally assembled under the State laws, forcibly occupying the State capital, and attempting, through the instrumentality of domestic traitors, to usurp the State governement, seizing and destroying private property, and murdering with fiendish malignity peaceable citizens, men, women, and children, together with other acts of atrocity."_ Another major sticking point, from what was effectively Georgia's declaration of independence: _"In the first years of the Republic the navigating, commercial, and manufacturing interests of the North began to seek profit and aggrandizement at the expense of the agricultural interests. Even the owners of fishing smacks sought and obtained bounties for pursuing their own business (which yet continue), and $500,000 is now paid them annually out of the Treasury."_ It continued with: _"they have succeeded in throwing the cost of light-houses, buoys, and the maintenance of their seamen upon the Treasury, and the Government now pays above $2,000,000 annually for the support of these objects. Theses interests, in connection with the commercial and manufacturing classes, have also succeeded, by means of subventions to mail steamers and the reduction in postage, in relieving their business from the payment of about $7,000,000 annually, throwing it upon the public Treasury under the name of postal deficiency. The manufacturing interests entered into the same struggle early, and has clamored steadily for Government bounties and special favors."_

[@rgsnr8702]

@@Jemalacane0 thank you for this insight

[@philmccracken7520]

Again W.Virginia is illegally created state . Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. At no time has any elected goverment of Virginia ever consented or approved for the formation of Western Virginia to become a state . Abe Lincoln Got consent fron non-elected group called restored Virginia it had no power it was not in charge at any time During the Civil War Nor after . Fact Virginia was under Miltary rule after Civil War Never was not at anytime under a civilian goverment in place nor was restored Virginia Group even offered anything or incharge of anything . Delaware on this grounds refused to ratify the 14th and 15th and 16th admendments cause of Force vote upon southern states (they were given no choice but to vote yea) and illegal creation and vote of Western Virginia ( notice I dont say W.Virginia or state there of). Delaware did not ratify 14th and 15th and 16th admendments until 1910 ! Mind you Delaware was 80% in favor of Union and 20% for the south , That almost changed when Lincoln dismisses Maryland Congress and Lock up the Gov. Of Maryland . Maryland never had chance to vote on leaving the Union , Delaware did but before Lincoln action in Maryland . Delaware was tried to stop the war but failed to do so .

[@hounddog3476]

Mountain men live free! We arent godless southern trash slavers here! We did not want to carry the shame of the weak, low i.q. soon to be eradicated lowlanders of Virginia.

[@marvin5620]

I was born and raised in West Virginia. And as a true West Virginian I can say unequivocally that the confederacy and their monuments can go to hell. Marking a battle sight is one thing. Puting the confederate flag on that marker is another. The confederate flag should be removed from all of those markers and replaced with the U.S. flag.

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

Why try to scrub history? It should remain exactly as it is so we remember what was and anyone defacing, destroying or removing monuments should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. As Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler rose to power they toppled statues to scrub the past. What's next, Book Burning or Trade the Government your Weapons for Farming Tools? Get my point?