Enlisted (no details listed), he was mustered into Company I, 12th Virginia Cavalry, as a Private. Only record of this service in on Parole.
Enlisted by William R. Smith on 11/21/1863 in Fauquier County, VA. for the duration of the war, he was mustered into Company B, Mosby's 43rd Battalion Virginia Partisan Cavalry as a Private, joining 3 Strother kinsmen.
Present on Sept & Oct 1863 Roll.
Paroled 5/8/1865 at Winchester; listed as with 12th Virginia Cavalry.
Mosby's Cavalry Regiment, formerly the 43rd Battalion, was organized in December, 1864. The battalion was formed in June, 1863, with five companies, later increased to eight. The unit served behind Federal lines in Northern Virginia and was the most effective command of its kind. The enemy forces were never safe and the area became known as "Mosby's Confederacy".
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Mr. Alfred M. Strother, age 67 years, one of Mosby’s men and an old resident of Fauquier county died very suddenly on October 25, at his home near Paris. He was survived by wife and three children, E. L. Strother, of Occoquan, Casper Strother, of Paris, and Mrs. C. C. Furr, of Washington. The Manassas Journal, 15 November 1912. [Obit courtesy of L.K. Perry (#47129998).]
Enlisted (no details listed), he was mustered into Company I, 12th Virginia Cavalry, as a Private. Only record of this service in on Parole.
Enlisted by William R. Smith on 11/21/1863 in Fauquier County, VA. for the duration of the war, he was mustered into Company B, Mosby's 43rd Battalion Virginia Partisan Cavalry as a Private, joining 3 Strother kinsmen.
Present on Sept & Oct 1863 Roll.
Paroled 5/8/1865 at Winchester; listed as with 12th Virginia Cavalry.
Mosby's Cavalry Regiment, formerly the 43rd Battalion, was organized in December, 1864. The battalion was formed in June, 1863, with five companies, later increased to eight. The unit served behind Federal lines in Northern Virginia and was the most effective command of its kind. The enemy forces were never safe and the area became known as "Mosby's Confederacy".
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Mr. Alfred M. Strother, age 67 years, one of Mosby’s men and an old resident of Fauquier county died very suddenly on October 25, at his home near Paris. He was survived by wife and three children, E. L. Strother, of Occoquan, Casper Strother, of Paris, and Mrs. C. C. Furr, of Washington. The Manassas Journal, 15 November 1912. [Obit courtesy of L.K. Perry (#47129998).]
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