Booth Aided by Mosby

[SSlater]

(08-20-2014 09:22 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Good question, Roger! I'll check -

The only thing I found was that there was a brief mention of skirmish at Burke Station in which Harney was captured in the April 11, 1865 Washington Daily Chronicle. There was a brief mention of Mosby. I'll look further -

betty o. Mosby may have been planning to assist Booth, But he missed out.
Every year, Mosby would send his Troops out of "Mosby's Confederacy", for the winter months. This gave the families in Loudon County some relief from feeding them.
In March '65, Mosby's men were on the Northern Neck of Virginia. ( For the "foreigners", the Northern Neck is the string of Counties, down the Potomac, Beginning with King George. On the other side of the Neck is the Rappahannock River.)
In March, Mosby got orders to bring his Troop to him. So, in March, they were forming up. They did have time to skirmish a bit on the 17th, at Mattox Creek. (Colonial Beach, VA area, in the vicinity of Sgt. Brogden's Camp) from there they went to Falmouth, VA and on to Loudon County.
As pointed out in Come Retribution Mosby did try to intercept Booth, but it seems the plan was to meet below Caroline County, and the Garrett's Farm.
My source for this is the Log Books of the 4 Union Gunboats that were in the skirmish. PS. Mosby had a Pvt. Thomas Benton Gayle in his Rangers. My step-son is Thomas Benton Gayle V.

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(08-21-2014 10:34 PM)SSlater Wrote:  

(08-20-2014 09:22 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Good question, Roger! I'll check -

The only thing I found was that there was a brief mention of skirmish at Burke Station in which Harney was captured in the April 11, 1865 Washington Daily Chronicle. There was a brief mention of Mosby. I'll look further -

betty o. Mosby may have been planning to assist Booth, But he missed out.
Every year, Mosby would send his Troops out of "Mosby's Confederacy", for the winter months. This gave the families in Loudon County some relief from feeding them.
In March '65, Mosby's men were on the Northern Neck of Virginia. ( For the "foreigners", the Northern Neck is the string of Counties, down the Potomac, Beginning with King George. On the other side of the Neck is the Rappahannock River.)
In March, Mosby got orders to bring his Troop to him. So, in March, they were forming up. They did have time to skirmish a bit on the 17th, at Mattox Creek. (Colonial Beach, VA area, in the vicinity of Sgt. Brogden's Camp) from there they went to Falmouth, VA and on to Loudon County.
As pointed out in Come Retribution Mosby did try to intercept Booth, but it seems the plan was to meet below Caroline County, and the Garrett's Farm.
My source for this is the Log Books of the 4 Union Gunboats that were in the skirmish. PS. Mosby had a Pvt. Thomas Benton Gayle in his Rangers. My step-son is Thomas Benton Gayle V.

Betty O. I'm back again. You got me interested in finding EXACTLY, what was Mosby doing in the March- April time frame. I looked at Tidwell's APRIL '65. Great Source...
Mosby was totally involved in putting Harney into Washington, and getting him out, safely. Obviously, potential problems of Booth were not a consideration. Mosby set up three escape routes - for Harney.
See Tidwell's April '65" for the details.