John S. Mosby, George A. Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864

 In August 1864, Major General Phillip Sheridan launched a campaign to drive Confederate forces out of Virginia’s  Shenandoah Valley.  Sheridan organized his Army of the Shenandoah as it was called, in the northern end of the valley, in the vicinity of Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia.  This was an area where Lieutenant Colonel John S. Mosby [...]

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