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the partisan leader and this failing, the searching party destroyed the crops and farmhouses be- longing to citizens known to have harbored or abetted Mosby or his men. His frequent capture of outposts compelled the Federals to strengthen their pickets and contract their lines, to evade capture or surprises. At Chantilly, March 16, 1863, he routed a superior Federal cavalry force, and at Dranesville, April 1, 1863, defeated a detach- ment of cavalry sent especially to capture him. During the battle of Chancellorsville he surprised a body of Federal cavalry at Warrenton Junction, but was obliged to retreat before overpowering numbers, which he did without loss to his com- mand. He then procured a howitzer and passed in the rear of General Hooker's army; wrecked a railroad train laden with supplies; inflicted severe damage on the troop guarding the train, and fi- nally cut his way through their lines and escaped. He captured a transport near Aquia Creek in May, 1864, while Grant was engaged in the Wilderness and the Federal commander was obliged to detach a cavalry force to protect his communications. With twenty-nine men he marched into Fairfax Court House on the night of March 7, 1863, cap- tured Gen. E. H. Stougliton at his headquarters with a number of his staff and men and delivered them the next day as prisoners to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. His command was known as the 43d battalion, Virginia cavalry, and he was commis- sioned successively captain, major, lieutenant- colonel and colonel, C. S. A. After the close of the war he engaged in the practice of law at Warrenton, Va. In 1876 he made public through a letter to the New York Herald his intention to support the candidacy of Rutherford B. Hayes for the presidency and in this letter first applied the phrase "the solid south." President Hayes ap- pointed him U. S, consul to Hong Kong, China, in 1878, and he retained the office until 1885. Re- turning to the United States he began the prac- tice of law in San Francisco, Cal., and became the counsel for the Southern Pacific Railroad com- pany. On Sept. 23, 1899, a granite monument, 25 feet high, was unveiled at Front Royal, Va., by " Mosby 's men," in memory of the seven com- rades executed near the spot, Sept. 23, 1864, while prisoners of war in the hands of the Federal army. In July, 1901, he was appointed a special agent of the general land office, with headquarters at Sterling, Colo. He is the author of: ** A Bit of Partisan Service and The Confederate Cavalry in the Oettysbnrg Campaign in •' Battles and Leaders of the Civil War " (Vol. Ill, pages 148 and 251) and of Mosby'a War Reminiscences and StuarVs Cav- alry Campaign (1887). See " Partisan Life with Mosby" by John Scott (1867); "Mosby and his Men "by J. M. Crawford (1867), and "Mosby's Rangers," by J. J. Williamson (1<^95).

MOSELEY, Edward Augustus, lawyer, was born in Newbury port, Mass., March 23, 1846; son of Edward Strong and Charlotte Augusta (Chap- man) Moseley; grandson of Ebenezer and Mary Ann (Oxnard) Moseley, and of the Rev. George T. Chapman, D.D. and Alice (Buck) Chapman, and a descendant of Moseley or Maudesley, who sailed from Plymouth, England, in the ship Mary and John in March, 1630, and settled in Dor- chester, Mass. He was a member of the com- mon council and an alderman of his native city, which he also represented for two terms in the Massachusetts legislature; was president of the Mechanics' Exchange of Boston, 1885-86, and was appointed secretary of the Interstate Commerce commission at Washington, D.C., in 1887, which office he still held in 1902. He was admitted to practice in the courts of Massachusetts, of the District of Columbia, 1889, and in the U. S. supreme court, 1893. He was made a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of the Revolution; chancellor of the Society of Col- onial Wars, and in 1897 succeeded Admiral Rich- ard W. Meade, as president of the American-Irish Historical society. He received the thanks of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for "disinter- ested and valuable services in the cause of hu- manity," and labored zealously for years to secure legislation in the interest of labor, particularly for the adoption of uniform safety appliances upon railway cars, becoming an authority on the subject in the United States. He also rendered valuable services in forwarding legislation to pro- mote arbitration and conciliation in labor dis- putes and the prevention of " blacklisting." He favored the law requiring railroads of the United States to full}' report accidents occurring on their lines, and in 1902 assisted in the preparation of the railroad law for Cuba. He was married, April 13, 1869, to Katherine Montague, daughter of Col. Joseph Newmarch and Sarah Jane (Bridges) Prescott of Newburyport, Mass. He is the author of: Arbitration as Applied to Railways and their Employes (1893); Safety Appliances on Railroads, (1894); One Hundred Years of Interstate Com- merce (1885), and numerous addresses and papers.

MOSELEY, Jonathan Ogden, representative, was born at East Haddam, Conn., in 1762; son of Dr. Thomas Moseley, a justice of the peace, and member of the Connecticut Medical associa- tion. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1780, A.M., 1783, was admitted to the bar and settled in practice in East Haddam. He was state's attorney for Middlesex county, 1797-1805, and was a Federalist representative in the 9th and 16th congresses, 1805-21. He was also colonel in the -state militia and justice of the peace of East