MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON Confederate Ranger . Autograph letter signed ("John S. Mosby") to Edward C. Turner Warrenton, Virginia, 28 July 1872. One page, 4to, on Mosby's lined letterhead stationery, two tiny tears at fold intersections, slight browning along folds . "NO SOUTHERN MAN SHOULD VOTE FOR GREELY OVER GRANT" "I intend speaking at Salem next Saturday, Aug. 3d at 3.O.C. P.M. I w[oul]d be glad to see you & other friends then on that day. I have been subjected to a great deal of misconstruction by those who either do not understand my position or the issues of the [canvass?]. I think I can show to any candid mind that no Southern man should vote for Greely over Grant & that the election of Greely offers no relief from any of those evils of bad government." From the winter of 1863, when John S. Mosby's first small detachment of nine "Partisan Rangers" began harassing Union pickets, to the end of the war in April 1865, when Mosby avoided surrender by ordering his men, now eight well-equipped companies, to simply disband as they were accustomed to doing, the Rangers' daring exploits were the envy of thousands of young Confederate soldiers. After the war Mosby returned to his law practice in Warrington. During the Reconstruction, he sacrificed his immense popularity in the South to his convictions, joining the Republican party and enthusiastically supporting General Grant, whom he had long admired, even after the scandals and corruption that had marred Grant's first term became public. Horace Greeley, Grant's opponent in the 1872 campaign and a Liberal Republican, had played a role in the establishment of the Republican Party and was an early supportor of emancipation. Mosby's unshakeable support for Grant is quite interesting in that Greeley's election platform advocated universal amnesty for former Confederates and home rule in the Southern states (he later called for the release from prison of former C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis). Greeley had only won the endorsement of the southern states for lack of a Democratic candidate.
MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON Confederate Ranger . Autograph letter signed ("John S. Mosby") to Edward C. Turner Warrenton, Virginia, 28 July 1872. One page, 4to, on Mosby's lined letterhead stationery, two tiny tears at fold intersections, slight browning along folds . "NO SOUTHERN MAN SHOULD VOTE FOR GREELY OVER GRANT" "I intend speaking at Salem next Saturday, Aug. 3d at 3.O.C. P.M. I w[oul]d be glad to see you & other friends then on that day. I have been subjected to a great deal of misconstruction by those who either do not understand my position or the issues of the [canvass?]. I think I can show to any candid mind that no Southern man should vote for Greely over Grant & that the election of Greely offers no relief from any of those evils of bad government." From the winter of 1863, when John S. Mosby's first small detachment of nine "Partisan Rangers" began harassing Union pickets, to the end of the war in April 1865, when Mosby avoided surrender by ordering his men, now eight well-equipped companies, to simply disband as they were accustomed to doing, the Rangers' daring exploits were the envy of thousands of young Confederate soldiers. After the war Mosby returned to his law practice in Warrington. During the Reconstruction, he sacrificed his immense popularity in the South to his convictions, joining the Republican party and enthusiastically supporting General Grant, whom he had long admired, even after the scandals and corruption that had marred Grant's first term became public. Horace Greeley, Grant's opponent in the 1872 campaign and a Liberal Republican, had played a role in the establishment of the Republican Party and was an early supportor of emancipation. Mosby's unshakeable support for Grant is quite interesting in that Greeley's election platform advocated universal amnesty for former Confederates and home rule in the Southern states (he later called for the release from prison of former C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis). Greeley had only won the endorsement of the southern states for lack of a Democratic candidate.
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