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Mosby’s hat
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This slouch hat was worn by John Mosby. According to Virgil
Carrington Jones, author of Grey Ghosts and Rebel Raiders,
this hat was left behind in a house in Rector’s Cross
Roads, Virginia, where Mosby was seriously wounded by
a detachment of federal cavalry in December, 1864. Forty
years later, it was returned to him by the daughter of
a 13th New York Cavalry officer. |
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Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces
History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Lent by John Singleton Mosby
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