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  <titleInfo>
    <title>John Singleton Mosby papers, 1861-1904 (bulk 1861-1869)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mosby, John Singleton</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1833-1916</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Chiefly correspondence, orders, commissions, reports, and circulars concerning the organization and activities of Mosby's Rangers (43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.).  Documents the guerrilla warfare carried out by the battalion in Virginia.  Contains remarks on public enthusiasm for the war in 1861, the treatment of prisoners of war, casualties, the death of Maj. John Pelham, and the capture of Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton.  Correspondents include Jubal Anderson Early, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Henry E. Peyton, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jeb Stuart, and Mosby's wife, Pauline.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Chiefly negative photostats.</note>
  <note>Photostats produced from originals with permission of Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1921.</note>
  <note>Confederate army officer, lawyer, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009298">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009298</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Early, Jubal Anderson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1894</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1870</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mosby, Pauline</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pelham, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1863</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peyton, H. E. (Henry E.)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stephens, Alexander Hamilton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1883</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stoughton, Edwin H. (Edwin Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1868</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stuart, Jeb</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1864</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Confederate States of America.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>Virginia Cavalry Battalion, 43rd.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Guerrilla warfare</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Casualties</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Prisoners and prisons</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Public opinion</topic>
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    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <occupation>Army officers, Confederate</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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