John S. Mosby - in Popular Culture

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  • Herman Melville's poem "The Scout Toward Aldie" was about the terror a Union brigade felt upon facing Mosby and his men.
  • Virgil Carrington Jones published Ranger Mosby (1944), and Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders (1956). He also wrote the late-1950s television program, Ranger Mosby.
  • A 1913 film entitled The Pride of the South, starred actor Joseph King as John Mosby.
  • CBS Television produced The Gray Ghost during the 1957–58 television season. The show aired in syndication and starred Tod Andrews as Mosby.
  • In Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls the protagonist refers to Mosby as the best cavalry officer of the Civil War.
  • Lee McGiffin wrote Iron Scouts of the Confederacy (1993), which told of two teenage boys who enlisted with Mosby's Rangers.
  • The 1967 Disney television movie Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders starred Kurt Russell as a young Confederate serving under Mosby, portrayed by Jack Ging.
  • In the 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory author Robert Skimin depicts Mosby as the head of military intelligence after the Confederacy wins the Civil War. He defends his friend, J.E.B. Stuart, from a court of inquiry investigating Stuart's actions in the battle of Gettysburg. In the novel, Skimin portrays Mosby as more pro-slavery than was the case historically.
  • There is a computer game based on Mosby's Civil war activities, by Tilted Mill, called "Mosby's Confederacy". (2008)
  • In the TV series How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby stated, after Barney Stinson found a pornographic film in which an actor shared the same name as Ted, "This is really bizarre—the only other famous Mosby I know was a Confederate general during the Civil War." (Season 3, Episode 6, "I'm Not That Guy"), apparently referring to Colonel John S. Mosby, who actually never became a general.
  • In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch reads Scout (his daughter, Scout Finch) a book called the "Gray Ghost"
  • In Issue #22 of fantasy, western, horror comic book The Sixth Gun, one of the main protagonists, Drake Sinclair, is said to have trained with Mosby during the Civil War.

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