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Major Mosby.
Editors of the Dispatch:
In reading your correspondent's letter of the 10th inst., of the Army of Northern Virginia, he alludes to Major Mosby in a complimentary manner, in one respect, though he shows great ignorance of him and his character when he alludes to the fear of injuring him by promotion.
He does not know that Mosby refused a commission urged upon him to accept for at least eighteen months. He has letters from Gen. Johnston (while in command at Manassas) to the Secretary of War, from Gen. Stuart as well as Gen. Lee to the President, for great services rendered, all of which he has, in his modesty, declined to deliver, preferring, in his loyalty, to work on in his hazardous, adventurous way against the Yankees, in whose lines he has lived and moved since the war, in which he entered as a private, receiving no pay. And not until lately has he accepted a commission, suggested by Gen. Stuart, (his friend, upon whose staff he served as a volunteer scout,)