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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby's men. (search)
The monument to Mosby's men. Who whilst prisoners of war were executed September 23, 1864, at Front Royal, Va. Ceremonies of the unveiling of, September 23, 1899, With the Addresses by Honorable A. E Richards, ex-major Mosby's battalion, and by Honorable R. H. Downing—with further statements by Colonel John S. Mosby and by Major Richards as to the responsibility for the Atrocity. The reunion of Mosby's men at Front Royal, September 23, 1899, was in every respect one of the most satisfactory events of the kind that ever occurred. The special event to be celebrated was the unveiling of a monument to six of Mosby's men, who, while prisoners of war, had been shot or hung in the streets of Front Royal by the Federal troops on the 23d September, 1864, and to another Mosby man, A. C. Willis, who was soon after hung by Colonel Powell, U. S. A., in Rappahannock county, Va. A goodly number of old Confederates came in last night and this morning early by railroad and country vehic