The 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry - "Mosby's Rangers" - is one of the most famous units of the Civil War. Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the 43rd's only commander, has had several books written about him and he remains the best-known personality of the command. It must be remembered, however, that the unit was comprised of many other exceptional men who were able to carry out Mosby's orders with dash, elan and a very high rate of success.
No military leader achieves greatness without having singularly outstanding and talented subordinates executing his orders and that was the case with Mosby. If the individual excellence of the men was not clearly demonstrated by their actions during the war, it was most certainly displayed as they matured and moved forward with their lives once the war ended.
My books have evolved over almost fifteen years of research and they provide tremendous insight into some of the men who rode with Mosby's Rangers. The in-depth biographical material contained in my books. The information in my books was gleaned from written anecdotes, personal accounts, letters, news articles, obituaries and a wide variety of other sources. The stories and articles you will read in the books clearly show that COL Mosby was extremely fortunate in the quality of the men who served under him. My books provide the reader with a remarkable amount of never before published information about the men. Additionally, biographical details found in rare newspaper clippings and long out-of-print books enhance each Ranger's chapter.
Many of the best known fights of Mosby's Rangers are woven into the fabric of the book, but they are described from the perspective of the individual Rangers who took part in them. That unique "in the saddle" perspective is what sets my books apart from others.
I do not know of any other books that focus on the junior officers and men of a famed military unit to the extent that mine do.
The one thing that has always fascinated me most about the War Between the States is the stories about the men who fought in it.
The stories I have found about the men who rode with Mosby are compelling. They tell the story of the war and its aftermath at a personal level. They are stories that must be told......and remembered.
MY BOOKS
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Mosby’s Rangers: Many Hazardous Exploits
Stories, information and photos of 40 of the men who rode with Mosby’s Rangers. There is a wide variety of personalities in this book that include a Ranger deserter turned Union Scout, a member of the group involved with John Wilkes Booth, a man Mosby called one of the most intelligent men he had ever met and a man who survived the war and lived into old age before being killed by a car while he was walking home from church. Multiple photographs of the men are included.
Rangers profiled in the book are:
Peyton L. Anderson
William Wirt Ashby
Charles Fenton Beavers
Charles Edward Biedler
Charles “Charley” Binns
Stacy Budd Bispham
Edward Bredell, Jr.
LT David Stone Briscoe
William Throckmorton Brooke
Edward Trenton Brumback
Cornelius Jerome Coiner
John W. Dunning
Charles Allen Dunnington
Phillip Byrd Eastham
Dr. Rezin Samuel Farr
Richard Ratcliffe Farr
Josiah P. Gayle, Mordecai J. Gayle and Thomas Benton Gayle
Dr. Thomas Fitzhugh Grayson
John Washington Heflin
James Monroe Heiskell
Charles E. Hoge
William Lyle Hunter, Jr.
Lycurgus “Curg” Emory Hutchison
Henry “Coley” C. Jordan
Edward Felix Kloman
Matthew Ferrell Magner
REV Landon Randolph Mason
Albert “Ab” G. Minor
James Blythe Moore
William Warden Patteson
Lewis Thornton Powell
Norman Vincent Randolph
Stephen Brooks Rollins
John “Rhoderick Dhu” Sealock
George Richard Lee Turberville
Charles Henry Walker
William Armistead Wall
Francis “Frank” Marion Woolf
Author: Eric W. Buckland Pages: 230 (Soft Cover)
Mosby's Rangers: Colts & Courage
I am extremely proud of my new work! The book offers a wonderful collection of stories, newspaper articles, obituaries, letters, obituaries and passage from long out-of-print books about 42 men who rode with Mosby’s Rangers. The book is also full of photos of the men when they were Rangers and later in life. Each Ranger’s wartime experiences and life story is compelling and exciting.
These are the Rangers whose stories are in the book:
Francis “Frank” Marion Angelo – “Mocking Bird”
Henry Stribling Ashby
Alexander Gulick Babcock
John N. Ballard
Fountain “Fount” Beattie
Bartlett H. Bolling
Henry Newlon Brawner
John Charles Buchanan
Nicholas Buchholz (Skeldon)
William Samuel Coffman
Edward Dorsey Cole
John H. Core
William Gideon Crigler
Henry Clay Dear
Walter E. Frankland
Frank “Zoo” Geschky
John Gill
George Walker Gilmer
Alfred Glascock
Charles Edward Grogan
James W. “John” Hammond
Henry G. Harris
Robert Montgomery Harrover
Edward S. “Ned” Hurst
Zachariah Fleming Jones
James C. Kincheloe and William S. Kincheloe
Thomas “Tommie” William Smith Lake
Robert McGill Mackall
Hugh Milton McIlhany
William A. Mickler (“Iron Scout”)
William H. “Willie” Mosby
William E. “Pony” Ormsby
Robert Blanks Parrott
Frank Henry “Red Fox” Rahm
Christopher Columbus Shaw
Henry Thomas “Harry” Sinnott
George Meacham Slater
Channing Meade Smith
Benjamin T. Spindle and Robert Leachman Spindle
Franklin “Frank” Williams
Author: Eric W. Buckland Pages: 324 (Soft Cover)
Mosby's Rangers: A Legacy of Success
The men who rode with Mosby were highly successful on the battlefield and for many, the same intelligence, courage, innovation and imagination they used to win acclaim as warriors carried over to their careers after the war. "Mosby's Rangers: A Legacy of Success" details the lives and accomplishments of thirty-three of those men. In that very remarkable group of thirty-three, "A Legacy of Success" describes how those Mosby Rangers went on to make their mark as lawyers, doctors, ministers, law enforcement officers and millionaires. Multiple photographs of the men are included.
Profiles include:
(Lawyers)
John Henry Alexander
George Baylor
David Stone Briscoe
James "Jimmy" Vass Chilton
James Keith
John Singleton Mosby
Stephen Cowling Perrow
Henry Malcolm Withers
Daniel Giraud Wright
(Doctors)
Dr. Lawrence Stirling Alexander
Dr. Boswell Preston Anderson
Dr. Lawrence Ashton
Dr. William Logan Dunn
Dr. Charles Albert "Ab" Fox
Dr. Briscoe Baldwin Ranson
Dr. William Garland Smith
Dr. James Richard Sowers
Dr. Zachariah Turner Sowers
Dr. John Samuel Waggaman
Dr. James Girard Wiltshire
(Ministers)
REV. William Henry Atwill
REV. William Franklin Ball
REV. Frederick William Claybrook
REV. Franklin Howard Kerfoot
REV. Edwin "Ned" Bridges Snead
(Law Enforcement)
James Monroe Barbee
James Richardson Brent
John Cromwell Orrick, Jr.
Wallace Norman Tansill
(Millionaires)
Joseph Bryan
Charles Edward Conrad
William George Conrad
Charles "Broadway" Rouss.
Author: Eric W. Buckland Pages: 304 (Soft Cover)
They Rode With Mosby
Some of Mosby's Rangers gained greater fame than their comrades. In some cases it was because they were officers in the command and mentioned more often than the Rangers they supervised. Other Rangers gained notoriety as a result of their daring and bravery. "They Rode With Mosby" provides an extraordinary amount of information on twenty-four of Mosby's best known men. Their lives during and after the war are detailed in the book. Many of the stories about their actions are compiled here for the first time. The strong personalities, leadership abilities, strength and courage exhibited by these men makes it easy to understand why Mosby's Rangers were so successful and became the scourge of so many Union Cavalry units that entered "Mosby's Confederacy."
Profiles:
William Henry Chapman
Sydnor Gilbert Ferguson
Bradford Smith Hoskins
Aristides Monteiro
Joseph Henry Nelson
Adolphus Edward Richards
James Foster Ames
John Cromwell Orrick, Jr.
Henry H. Hatcher
Robert Stringfellow Walker
Alexander Gulick Babcock
Baron Robert von Massow
Joseph Bryan
Edward Francis Thomson
Henry Cabell Maddox
Walter Bowie
Albert Gallatin Willis
William Thomas Overby
Richard Paul Montjoy
Bushrod Underwood
Robert Woodford Eastham
Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
John Singleton Russell
Samuel Forrer Chapman.
Author: Eric W. Buckland Pages: 294 (Soft Cover)
From Rockbridge to Loudoun: Mosby's Keydet Rangers
This book is a collection of biographical information about the 57 men who matriculated at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and also rode with the 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry - Mosby's Rangers. 21 of the men also fought with the Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market. The men profiled in the book (average age in 1864 was 18) packed a lot of living into their lives before turning 20, but many went on to have even more thrilling and productive lives after the war. Charlie Dear was 16 when he left VMI to join Mosby - he was wounded 12 times as a Ranger, but lived to be a rough and ready 82 year old. George Raum lived a life so full of experiences and travels that it is almost beyond belief. He had a private meeting with the Pope, attended the coronation of the Czar of Russia and made new discoveries while excavating the Sphinx. Ben Palmer, it was said, was so polite that he would ask to be excused while shooting a Yankee. The book also contains many photos of the men that are not even found in the VMI Archives.
Profiles:
Lewis Benjamin Adie
Winchester Durham Belvin
Edmund Berkeley, Jr.
Henry Clay Bowen
James Pollard Bowen
William Brownley Bowen
Walter Bowie
Henry Clay Chamblin
Roger Preston Chew
Walter Scott Chewning
John Henshaw Clarkson
Frederick William Claybrook
Cleveland B. Coleman
Nathaniel Ragsdale Coleman
Beverly Sydnor Crews
John Thomas Crow
Charles Henry Dear
John Carter Edmonds
Griffin Taylor Garnett
Edwin Gibson
Henry Huntington Harrison
Frederick Southgate Hipkins
John Horsley
Charles Buckler Hundley
Jacob Peck Imboden
William Edward Jackson
Charles S. Jones
James Foley Kemper
William H. Kennedy, Jr.
Alexander Hamilton Leftwich
Robert Nelson Locke
Alexander Lyle
John Willis McCue
Newton McVeigh
Henry St. Cyr Menefee
David Guin Mohler
Jacob Luther Moon
Robert Edward Nelson
Andrew Hetherton Nott
William Benjamin Palmer
John Crump Porter
John James Audubon Powell
Ralph Hylton Prosser
George Edward Raum
Lawrence Royster
Matthew Vincent Scurry
Frederick Waugh Smith
James Marsden Smith
John Franklin Sowers
William Henry Talley
John Tayloe, Jr.
James Frank Turner
Townsend Heaton Vandevanter
Charles Pinkney Walker
John Eliott Walker
John Tyler Waller
Lloyd Washington.
Author: Eric Buckland Pages: 366 (Soft Cover)
A Short Bio
I graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.A. in English and a commission as a 2LT in the United States Army.
Most of my 22-year military career - I retired from the Army as a LTC - was spent in Special Operations (Special Forces, Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs). I had multiple deployments to Panama, Honduras and El Salvador in the 1980's. I believe that my military experience provides me with a unique understanding of Mosby's Rangers.
Some of my awards include the Special Forces and Ranger Tabs, Master Parachutist Badge, Combat Diver Badge and the Combat Infantryman's badge. I retired in 1999 as a Lieutenant Colonel.
My interest in Mosby's Rangers began when I was a young boy and increased during my time in the military. My first book, Mosby's Keydet Rangers (which has been re-titled From Rockbridge to Loudoun: Mosby's Keydet Rangers and contains almost 200 more pages of information and 60 new photos), began as a tribute to both the Rangers and my youngest son, who was then a Rat at VMI. While working on that book, I constantly found bits and pieces of information on other Rangers (not affiliated with VMI) and all of those became the genesis for my next books.
I am currently the President of The Stuart-Mosby Historical Society.
"A small force moving with celerity and threatening many points on a line can neutralize a hundred times its own numbers."
COL John S. Mosby
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