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I am doing John S Mosby
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This is a difficult choice. I read through some MoH citations but those people are too insane to pick from. I thought about veering into fiction, but you normies will need to rely on those guys. So, I'm picking potentially the only Confederate traitor bastard that I could probably ever take. Another reason is that he's a hometown guy where I live; both someone who grew up here, and a burner-downer of things around here.
Mosby was an abolitionist and anti-secessionist. He fought for the South because unlike most Confederates who laid claim to "only fighting to defend his home," he actually definitely fully was doing that. He had lived all over the state so he did kind of have connections everywhere. He was issued a slave for the duration of the war. He spent the rest of his life paying back wages to the guy and supporting him. While the post-war story was already changing to "wahhh the South were victims fighting for states rights" Mosby retorted "all you idiots blathered about at the time as the cause was slavery. Morons."
Further, The Grey Ghost is an original commando in the sense that we would recognize the concept. He led a partisan band of irregulars, existed outside the normal chain of command, and was incredibly effective. Grant vowed to summarily hang him if he was ever caught. As you can tell by that picture above, he was never caught. He was a royal pain in the dick who came and went, taking down US supply depots and rail stations and conducting hit and run strikes on soldiers and camps. Sort of like Green Berets, these guys could blend in deep behind enemy lines. His best raid was when he made it to the Fairfax County Courthouse and captured a general and a bunch of horses without taking or inflicting any casualties. In and out, smooth as butter made from babies.
The main reason I can pick an enemy, though, is his conduct after the war. I already mentioned his abolitionism and compensation for his issued slave. He went right back to being a staunch Unionist after the war. His stance was "I told you idiots seceding was stupid as hell" and insisted that the war was an error that needed to be moved on from. Lee also preached similar things, but everyone was happy to ignore Lee while they idolized an idea of him. Mosby was popular, but he wasn't Lee. His message of unity pissed everyone off and he didn't care. There is a reason most of you probably haven't heard of him and he doesn't have almost any monuments and maybe one highway in his home region named for him; he went from adored war celebrity to reviled really fast.
He also vigorously supported Grant's campaign for president as part of his "We are one country again you assholes" message; He actually may have managed his campaign in VA. The same Grant who hated him so much during the war that he was determined to kill him as fast as possible. They became great friends. This, however, was a step too far for Virginians. The threats were so severe and hatred so hot that Grant was sincerely afraid Mosby would be killed, so he hauled him off to Hong Kong on a diplomatic mission for a while until things could cool down. Probably a good idea, as there was one known assassination attempt and his house was burned down.
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