Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles H. Ruggles, Civil War Letter regarding Prisoners Taken by Mosby's Rangers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1147
Overview
Letter written by Charles H. Ruggles to a Mr. Lossing (possibly Benson J. Lossing), dated 26 November 1864. Ruggles asks Lossing to inquire of Colonel Milford at Fortress Monroe regarding the location and status of Majors David Ruggles and Edwin Moore, Union Army paymasters who had been taken prisoner by Mosby's Rangers during the Greenback Raid on the railroad between Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg on 14 October 1864. Collection contains a user copy. Please see "Historical Note" for further...
Dates:
1864
H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1330
Scope and Contents
Forty-nine letters of Ephraim W. Frost of Co J., 116th Reg, Ohio Vol Inf. Frost, who lived in Coolville, Ohio, near Parkersburg, was stationed at Moorefield, Martinsburg, near Romney, Winchester and Sleepy Creek in Morgan County, where his Reg. was guarding the B & O. The letters comment on fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 around Woodstock, mention of McNeill, Imboden, and Mosby, and contain much on camp life in the eastern panhandle area. Frost was wounded near Piedmont in May...
Dates:
1861-1865
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- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862. 1
- Civil War - Ohio 116th Volunteer Infantry, Company J. 1
- Civil War - Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November) 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 12th Cavalry. 1
- Civil War -- Imboden's Rangers 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- McNeill's Rangers 1
- Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Romney, WV - Civil War. 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Sleepy Creek, Morgan County (W.Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Virginia 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
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