Quotes from John S. Mosby

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

Well, it made you famous.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].