Mosby’s Rangers

Battle of Miskel Farm

Captain John Singleton Mosby and 69 of his Confederate ranger troop were surprised at dawn while sleeping here in the Miskel farmhouse and hay barn by 150 Union cavalry. Though greatly outnumbered, Captain Mosby led his rangers ...

Mosby’s Rangers

Battle of Miskel Farm

Captain John Singleton Mosby and 69 of his Confederate ranger troop were surprised at dawn while sleeping here in the Miskel farmhouse and hay barn by 150 Union cavalry. Though greatly outnumbered, Captain Mosby led his rangers ...

Mosby’s Rangers Disband Site

Here, April 21, 1865, Col. John S. Mosby disbanded his gallant partisan rangers—the Forty-Third Battalion Virginia Cavalry.

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street / John Marshall Highway (Virginia Route 55) and Frost Street on West Main Street / ...

Mosby’s Rangers Disband

Unable to extend a truce with the Union army, Col. John S. Mosby assembled his command, the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, in a field just west of here on 21 Apr. 1865. As Mosby sat astride his horse, his final ...

Execution of Mosby’s Rangers

“The ‘dark day’ of 1864”

"Mosby will hang ten of you for every one of us!"

were William Thomas Overby’s last words to his

executioners before the rope tightened around his

neck here on Richardson’s Hill. This was the

final scene of a tragedy that ...