Gray Ghost’s Gray Morals
I lived in Northern Virginia for a good while, where a lot is named after Colonel John Mosby, but I thought of him as purely a southern bandit. In “ToGrant, so I was inspired to read more about him. Mosby seems politically complicated. He claims to have hated slavery, but owned a slave? He felt it was his duty to fight for the south, but he always believed the war was about slavery? His men executed captured Union soldiers, but only in retaliation? I wonder if Mosby was truly so principled during his guerrilla operations, or if former Confederates only grew a conscience after the war ended.
