Military Images, March 1st, 2007
Rough Riding Scout, The Story of John W. Mobberly Loudon's Own Civil War Guerrilla Hero, hy Richard E. Crouch, 51 pages, 12 illustrations. Eiden Editions, 2101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 950, Arlington, VA 22201. Softcover $12.00 + $2.75 S & H.
One of the partisans who had free rein to operate behind Union lines in Virginia was Elijah White. John Mobberly was his chief scout. Mobberly was only eighteen when he joined the Confederate Army. He was born dirt poor in Loudon County, a county which also raised a regiment for the Union Army.
Mobberly was illegitimate, born to a young poor mother a...
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