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John S. Mosby

There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him.

— John S. Mosby people

Referring to George Christians eulogy of slavery because it was a patriarchal institution, I reminded you that polygamy and circumcision were patriarchal institutions. I forgot to say that eunuchs were also a patriarchal institution. Ask Hugh if I am not right.

— John S. Mosby christian

I suppose you are now back in Staunton. I wrote you about my disgust at reading the Reunion speeches. It has since been increased by reading Christians report. I am certainly glad I wasnt there. According to Christian, the Virginia people were the abolitionists and the Northern people were pro-slavery. He says slavery was a patriarchal institution. So were polygamy and circumcision. Ask Hugh if he has been circumcised.

— John S. Mosby reading

Christian quotes what the Old Virginians said against slavery. True; but why didnt he quote what the modern Virginians said in favor of it? Mason, Hunter, Wise, etc. Why didnt he state that a Virginia senator, Mason, was the author of the Fugitive Slave Law, and why didnt he quote The Virginia Code that made it a crime to speak against slavery?

— John S. Mosby quotes

Now while I think as badly of slavery as Horace Greeley did I am not ashamed that my family were slaveholders. It was our inheritance. Neither am I ashamed that my ancestors were pirates and cattle thieves. People must be judged by the standard of their own age. If it was right to own slaves as property it was right to fight for it.

— John S. Mosby people

The South went to war on account of slavery. South Carolina went to war, as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln. South Carolina ought to know what was the cause for her seceding. The truth is the modern Virginians departed from the teachings of the Fathers.

— John S. Mosby truth

Tell Mr. Gordon to load himself up on States Rights before I come. Did he ever read John Baldwins testimony before the Reconstruction Committee in wch., in answer to a question, Baldwin said that he & all Confederates had committed treason? I say the Confederates who deny they were rebels are ashamed of it. I am proud of it. Whats the difference.

— John S. Mosby self

How can a soldier be proud of the country he defends while at the same time opposed to the cause he is fighting for? John S. Mosby, the renowned Confederate partisan leader, dealt with this moral dilemma years after the Civil War ended. Mosby despised slavery and believed the South had seceded to protect it. Yet he fought to defend the Confederacy, as he felt his patriotic duty to his nation outweighed all other factors. After the war, Mosby befriended General Ulysses S. Grant and joined the Republican Party.As quoted in A former Confederate officer on slavery and the Civil War, by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

— John S. Mosby war

As quoted in A former Confederate officer on slavery and the Civil War, by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

— John S. Mosby war

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