Front Royal - Warren Rifles Confederate Museum

The First stop of our day was to the Warren Rifles Confederate Museum. Below is a picture of the museum building. Inside the museum were relics and records of the Civil War. Items that we saw were guns, swords, uniforms, cavalry equipment, rare documents, pictures, personal and domestic items, items belonging to Belle Boyd, Mosby's Rangers, General Jackson, General Lee, General Early, General Longstreet, and General Ashby. Ms. Edwards was able to take a few pictures while inside the museum. Below are some of the items she found the most interesting.

Below is a picture of the uniforms and the different levels of service that soldiers in both the confederate and the union armies. What I liked best about this picture is that it shows both sides of the war in the same picture. It also shows each armies soldier levels and what the other side would have looked like at that same level.

The next item that caught my attention was this table that would appear in someone's bedroom. On top of the table is a wash basin bowl and a water picture. Can you imagine waking up every morning and washing using these items. I think that I will stick with my morning shower.

Below is a desk that would appeared in a post office. This is an item that I would love to have. Think of how organized that I could be with all of these individual drawers.

In the museum was also information about Mosby's Men. From the exhibit I learned that some of Mosby's men were arrested and executed. I was interested in learning more about this individual so I did a little research online.

• John Singleton Mosby was a Confederate Partisan Ranger.



• He used guerilla fighting



• He was known as the "Grey Ghost"



• He was born in Powhatan County, Virginia



• Mosby was against secession but will fight for the Confederacy



• January 1863 - Mosby took command of the 43rd Battalion Virginia Calvary.



• Mosby was promoted through the chanals and eventually became a Colonel on December 7, 1864.



• Men who were a part of Mosby's group were Fount Beatie, Charles Buchanan, Christopher Gaul, William L. Hunter, Edward S. Hurst, Jasper and William Jones, William Keys, Benjamin Morgan, George Seibert, George M. Slater, Daniel L. Thomas, William Thomas Turner, Charles Wheatley, and John Wild.



• Mosby carried out a raid inside Union lines at the Fairfax County courthouse in March 1863. His men captured three high-ranking Union officers. Captured about 30-50 sentries. No shots were fired.



• Union forces executed six of Mosby's men in Front Royal Virginia.



• One of the executed men (William Thomas Overby) was reported to say "Msoby will hang 10 of you for every one of us."



• In retaliation Mosby ordered seven Union prisioners to be executed on November 6, 1864. three of the men were hanged, two were shot in the head (both survived), the other two escaped.



• November 11, 1864 - Mosby corresponded with Sheridan and requested that both sides resume treating prisioners with humanity. After this letter both sides started treating prisioners as "prisoners of war."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Mosby