Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby was born in Powhatan County on 6 Dec. 1833 and lived nearby in his early childhood home from soon after his birth until his family moved to Charlottesville by 1841. Before the Civil War, he was a lawyer in Bristol, Va. During the war, Mosby and his Partisan Rangers, the 43d Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, used guerrilla tactics to raid Union outposts, communications, and supply lines in Northern Virginia. On 21 Apr. 1865, after learning of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's surrender, Mosby disbanded his rangers in Salem, present-day Marshall, Fauquier Co. After the war, he practiced law and served as U.S. consul to Hong Kong from 1879 to 1885. He died on 30 May 1916.