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A Thousand Points of Truth

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My interest in Colonel John Singleton Mosby began in 1950 Then again it wasn t until 2002 that it led to extensive research on the subject centered upon newspaper reports on the man begun all through the Civil War and continued right through and even after his life And even as I rejected Virgil Carrington Jones s statement on Mosby contained in the preface of this work I did not contemplate writing this book until an even more disparaging statement came to my attention all through my research The comment was contained in a piece of writing in the Ponchatoula Times of May 26 1963 as part of a six article series written by Bernard Vincent McMahon entitled The Gray Ghost of the Confederacy Mr McMahon in turn based his comment upon General Omar Bradley s judgment of what might have been the postwar life of General George Patton Now substitute Mosby for General Patton in the book A General s Life by Omar Bradley I consider it was better for General Patton Mosby and his professional reputation that he died when he did He would have gone into retirement hungering for the old limelight beyond doubt indiscreetly sounding off on any subject anytime any place In time he would have grow to be a monotonous parody of himself a decrepit bitter pitiful figure unwittingly debasing the legend emphasis mine McMahon Then again only proffered in his writings the widely accepted view of John Mosby held by many if not most Then again like General Ulysses S Grant I have come to know Colonel Mosby relatively more intimately through the testimony of countless witnesses over a span of 150 years and I consider that it is time for those who deeply respect John Mosby the soldier to now also respect John Mosby the man A century ago the book of John Singleton Mosby s life closed It is my hope that this book will validate the claim he made all through that life that he would be vindicated by time V P Hughes

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