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A small group of Mosby's Rangers

Back Row, L.to R.
Claiborne Robinson, Col. John S. Mosby,
Harris C. Blanchard,
D. Giraud Wright,
J. Henry Smith, and
Alexander G. Carey

Front Row, L.to R.
J. Monroe Heiskell,
Henry Slater,
Dan Murray Mason,
Charles E. Grogan,
Joshua Riggs, and
Gresham Hough

The Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation plans to preserve and exhibit the Mosby-related collection of John Gott and others. It will become a permanent exhibit in the Old Salem Meetinghouse in Marshall. Among the items in the relics related to Col. John S. Mosby and his Rangers are:

the window sash containing the bullet riddled panes still intact from "Lakeland", the home of Ludwell Lake. It was at this home one of the bullets entering the dining room via the window pane, wounded Col. Mosby on 21 December 1864;
the bonnet of Sarah Lake, daughter of Ludwell Lake, which she handed to Col. Mosby when he said, "I'm shot" to check the flow of blood. The blood stains "set" and are there today;
a split cannon ball found on Stephenson's Hill, possibly from one of Mosby's howitzers placed there on 5 October 1864 to halt the rebuilding of the Manassas Gap Railroad;
a telescope taken from a Union soldier killed by Ludwell Lake, Jr. The soldier had killed "Yankee" Ames, a Ranger, and was robbing his body when shot and killed by Lake.

Among other items, including gifts from Mosby when he was consul in Hong Kong to Sarah (Lake) Smith, will be a collection of photographs of the noted guerrilla leader whose battalion was disbanded by him at Marshall (then Salem) on 21 April 1865, almost two weeks after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox.