He agreed with Napoleon, that boys make the best soldiers . In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. Hiswill also instructed that $25,000 be givento Princeton to establish and maintainscholarships in his familys honor. Hibbs had another moniker of which he was exceedingly proud. On November 7th, 1864, in Beemers Woods just west of Berryville, rangers hanged three of the Federals, shot two, while the other two escaped in the night. About four miles into the Valley west of Ashbys Gap, Russells men attacked approximately 100 riders of the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Committedsuicide on August 31, 1874, by slitting histhroat with a straight-edged razor. Live a Nautical Lifestyle. [15], For instance, describing the fight at Miskel's barn, Munson says of William H. Chapman (later lieutenant colonel of Mosby's command) wheeling his horse in a thicket of Yankees "[t]he pistols were not a foot apart. Thompson, John D. Small, harassing raids continued in the Valley until October 14th when Mosby and approximately eighty rangers conducted the Greenback Raid near Duffields Station, about seven miles west of Harpers Ferry. The meeting ended without an agreement. Recently Updated Mosby's Rangers in the Shenandoah Valley. Both Sam and William were involved in the Rangers fight at Miskels Farm on April 1, 1863. The field officers were Colonel John S. Mosby, Lieutenant Colonel William H. Chapman, and Major A.E . When Lee surrendered in 1865, Mosby and his men were leery of surrendering, fearing that the Union would hang them as spies. When other correspondents were captured in the Rangers' raids, they were treated well and given liquor and cigars. In that clash, Mosby and about 150 men ambushed and then attacked a 300-man detachment of the 2nd Massachusetts and 16th New York Cavalry regiments. He was acting under the authority of General Robert E. Lee, who had granted him permission to raise a company in January 1863 under the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862 in which the Confederate Congress authorized the formation of such units. Served in the U.S.Department of Interior and Departmentof Justice. With a force of nearly 40,000 troops and a wagon train about twelve miles long, Sheridans army was both imposing and vulnerable. Mosby-related sites abound in Virginia. Eric Buckland retired from the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel after spending the majority of his 22-year career in Special Forces. Served with the 1st MarylandCavalry before joining Mosbys Rangers. Buck, Rosters of men who served Virginia from the lower Shenandoah Valley. Washington, D.C. Email powered by MailChimp (Privacy Policy & Terms of Use). Around thirty Federal troopers were killed or wounded, others captured. During the ensuing melee, Massow was riding down on the Union commander, Captain James Sewell Reed, with his saber poised for a lethal strike. The Partisan Rangers had a big hand in bringing the 'Gray Ghost' plenty of glory. Thescholarships continue to be awarded tothis day. I crossed over with the prisoners among the first. Corder, Joseph M. Years afterwards Cab confessed why he gave the false alarm. Rectortown, Virginia, when John S. Mosby formed Company A of the battalion. In 1871,he married Louisa Sophia Wigfall, thedaughter of Senator Louis TrezevantWigfall (a former member of both theU.S. and Confederate senates). The Partisan Ranger Act resulted in many Southerners believing that any of form of guerrilla warfare was now being approved. It was no fault of the Union cavalry that they did not get through faster than they did, but Sam seemed to think that it was. Mosby got his first chance to attack Sheridan early on August 13th, 1864. After the wagons were plundered, Mosby ordered them burned. Among the rangers there were 8 men named Davis, 7 men named Cornwell, 5 men named Kincheloe, 5 men named Mayhugh. Mosby was a small town lawyer who joined the Confederate Army when his home state of Virginia seceded from the Union, and who became GeneralJeb Stuart'sbest scout, earning himself both a command and the nickname "Gray Ghost." Bottom: Mosby Heritage Area sign on Route 211 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Rhodes, Henry (killed) Paroledin Winchester, Va., on April 22, 1865. [Photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889] Photograph. 3. Standing in Sheridans avenue to conquest was the tough, 14,000-man Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal Early. Mosby was against secession from the Union, however when the war began, he enlisted in the Confederate infantry as a private, having decided that he couldnt turn against his home state. They also performed raids in Maryland.[6]. You can also visit theStuart-Mosby Civil War Cavalry Museumin Centreville, Virginia. If attacked themselves, the guerrillas would sometimes ride away a brief distance and then round on their attackers and charge back into them, panicking and scattering them in the melee. Mosby's four requirements to become a member of his com-mand, besides being a fighter with good character, included the following.12. Morrow convinces pretty Ansonia Forde to provide false information to trap Mosby. Great-grandson of John Henley, a signerof the Declaration of Independence. Not only him but his wife and family as well. This wool jacket and slouch hat both belonged to Mosby, who was wearing the hat when he was wounded by federal cavalry in December 1864. Although I was surrounded by Revolutionary War history as a kid growing up in New Jersey, I much preferred the Civil War. 2, Chapman. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. Sam was grievously wounded in the Grapewood Farm Fight in Auburn, Fauquier County, (where Hoskins had been mortally wounded) and paroled on the field by the victorious Union cavalry. Yesterday a friend paid this tribute: A man of exemplary character and spotless integrity, Colonel Chapman lived a life of simple and natural religion. John Singleton Mosby will always be regarded as one of the Civil War's most famousperhaps infamousfigures, and though he doesn't quite reside in the war's pantheon alongside the likes of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant, he assuredly stands as an equal to military history's . Mosby placed a mountain howitzer he had taken with him on the raid at the top of a small rise on a road up which the Union cavalry would have to attack. A few guerrillas equipped themselves with carbines captured from the Union, but "they were unhandy things to carry" and unsuited for fighting on horseback; indeed in the thick of a February 1865 fight the carbines' long barrels made them too unwieldy to fire, and they were used instead as clubs. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. The second purpose was to promote the use of guerrilla warfare to help protect areas where there was little protection from the army. Younger brotherof Ranger George Meacham Slater. While riding as part of Mosby's Rangers near the end of the war these men had contact with Thomas F. Harney of the Confederate Torpedo Bureau. In 1862, still not comfortable remaining in one place for too long, Hoskins left Canada for the United States and settled in Baltimore, Md. Their area of operations in Northern Virginia ranged from the Shenandoah Valley to the west, along the Potomac River all the way to Alexandria in the east, bounded on the south by the Rappahannock River, with most of his operations centered in or near Fauquier and Loudoun counties. known as Mosby's Rangers, Mosby's Raiders, or Mosby's Men, was a battalion of What to call the Confederate 43rd Battalion was a matter of contention during the war. The furious Federals wanted to take revenge against the six captured rangers; permission was granted, probably by Federal cavalry corps commander, Maj. Gen. Alfred Torbert. HARRIS CHAMBERLAINBLANCHARD,Private, Artillery Company. He saw action with the Rangers at Miskels Farm on April 1, 1863, and at Warrenton Junction on May 3. John Singleton Mosby will always be regarded as one of the Civil Wars most famousperhaps infamousfigures, and though he doesnt quite reside in the wars pantheon alongside the likes of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant, he assuredly stands as an equal to military historys unconventional warfare legends such as Robert Rogers, Francis Marion, T.E. awoke [and] saw my horse standing at my feet with his head bending over me. Sillman, John A. Come along, Major! The Yankees at once transferred their shower baths from Cab to the Major, who showed his appreciation of the formers self-sacrifice by spluttering out to him that he was respectful all at once.. Mosby, it was reported, woke Stoughton with a spank on his bare back. The general was outraged and demanded to know what the meaning of this was. Or they would simply "skedaddle", that is scatter to the four winds, and individually make their way back to the farms in Loudoun and Fauquier counties where they were welcomed, hidden, and succoured. After February 1864, the Confederate Congress revoked the authority of all partisan units, except for two, one of which was the 43rd Battalion, the other being McNeill's Rangers. Action in the Valley declined, although there was a sharp encounter between rangers under Lt. John Russell and Federal cavalry on December 16th. Here are the stories of some of the most memorable of that lot. One occurred on March 30th, 1865, when five rangers trapped two Federals at the Daniel Bonham farm about three miles west of Berryville. During the negotiations, a ranger named Hern burst into the room and yelled to Mosby that Federal cavalry had set a trap and were hidden in the woods. Ultimately Union troops found the mountainside hiding places of the cannons and made off with them. Noted Mosbys Rangers operated out of Middleburg, Virginia. The young rangers certainly enjoyed these spoils of war, but calls for recrimination and Mosbys head grew louder in the North. Mosby soon devised a raid that brought his Rangers south of the Rappahannock. mere boys, unmarried and hence without fear or anxiety for wives or children. When it did, rangers entered the cars, killed a Federal officer, and confiscated personal valuables from the passengers. The unit served behind Federal lines in Northern Virginia and was the most effective command of its kind. Hoskins died on June 2, 1863, and was buried in the Greenwich Presbyterian Churchs cemetery. Grant in his memoirs wrote about Mosby after the war and came away with a different perspective. [21], Speed, surprise and shock were the true secret of the success of Mosby's command. He survived, however, living until 1929. . His brother, Robert, had preceded him to America and first served in Wheats Battalion (the famed Louisiana Tigers). I disband your organization in preference to surrendering it to our enemies. We both did this a good many times but, I believe, without bragging at the expense of truth, that we saw the back seams of the enemy's jackets oftener than they saw ours. Served during the war in the21st Virginia Infantry, 1st MarylandInfantry, and 1st Virginia Cavalry priorto joining Mosby in December 1863. Munson said in his memoirs: "Something gray" was the one requisite of our dress and the cost of it mattered little. The publication of Virgil Carrington Jones' bookRanger Mosbyin 1944 led to renewed interest in the dashing cavalryman; in the 1950s came the television showThe Gray Ghost, which aired in syndication from 1957-1958. He died September 9, 1917. Stuart. As the Gray Ghost related in The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby: While we were helping the passengers to climb the steep bank, one of my men, Cab Maddux, who had been sent off as a vidette to watch the road, came dashing up and cried out that the Yankees were coming. Mosbys men conducted nearly 30 raids in 1863-64 and were very successful at putting a thorn in the enemys backside as well as scouting and foraging for the army. Ulysses S. Grant but not before it had attempted to negotiate surrender with Resigned hiscommission on April 23, 1862, andbecame a scout for Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Each man had at least two horses and many men had several. "[20] All men had at least two; Mosby himself as many as six, since a few miles at a flat-out run would exhaust even the best horseand Mosby's men were constantly either running toward or away from the federals. Leach, Thornton V. Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, []. The indomitable and irrepressible Mosby is again in the saddle carrying destruction and consternation in his path. Whether it was the family road trip toGettysburgor thestampalbum I had featuring all of the generals that got me hooked, I now consider myself very lucky to work among Civil War objects. The method of operation involved executing small raids with up to 150 men (but usually 20 to 80) behind Union lines by entering the objective area undetected, quickly executing their mission, and then rapidly withdrawing, dispersing the troops among local Southern sympathizers, and melting into the countryside. With orders from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to conduct total war to wipe out Confederate resistance in the Valley and burn crops and farms, Sheridan launched an offensive on August 9th. At wars end, when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, Mosbys men never surrendered, they disbanded and returned to their farms. As John Henry Alexander noted in Mosbys Men: Pray dont make the mistake of assigning William Hibbs among the non-combatants. Though his title was merely in courtesy of his quasi office of quartermaster, no braver man followed Mosby. A seventh captured ranger was executed later. The diary of Union mapmaker Private Robert Knox Sneden, who Mosby captured near Brandy Station, Virginia at 3:00am November 27, 1863, records that Mosby's raiders were disguised in Union Blue overcoats, and so was Mosby himself. and 10-11-63 raid on a wagon train west of Alexandria. On later reflection, Lee concluded that whatever the military utility of the rangers in the larger scheme of things, Mosby was "zealous bold, and skillful, and with very small resources he has accomplished a great deal. How long he had stood there in mute appeal for sympathy and relief, I do not know--perhaps all night. Compton, Z.T. Those who were not captured or killed, scattered. This quickly became the norm for Mosbys men when the captured Union soldiers. Brutality between the rangers and Federals was about to end, but not quite. The two soldiers who were shot survived to tell the gory tale. On the 150th anniversary of the fall of the city of Atlanta to the Union Army's Division of the Mississippi during the Civil War, we're "Um, what is that? Classification. The struggle ebbed and waned, but sheer numbers on the Union part and dwindling ammunition on the Rangers part soon tilted the fight in favor of the Northerners. In recognition of his service, Hoskins was awarded the Crimea War Medal with clasps for Alma, Inkermann, and Sebastapol. By the summer of 1864, Mosby and his men were disrupting the advance of the United States Army of the Shenandoah into Virginias Shenandoah Valley. The mens treatment of their horses and the sentiment they shared about their horses, not as animals but as members of the unit was legendary. I was very mad with Cab for almost creating a stampede and told him that I had a good mind to have him shot. By the summer of 1864, Mosby's battalion had grown to six cavalry companies and Both sides agreed and there were no more executions. Both operated in Virginia and operated under normal military discipline. ALEXANDERGIBSON CAREY,Private, Company E. Brother of Ranger James Carey. Federal Brig. After losing a sharp skirmish to the Scouts just west of Ashby Gap in the Blue Ridge on November 16th, Mosby sent two ranger companies under Captain Adolphus Dolly Richards to find and destroy the Scouts and their leader, Captain Richard Blazer. It was no uncommon thing for one of our men to gallop by a tree at full tilt, and put three bullets in its trunk in succession. One survivor lived to tell the gory tale. The 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, also Servedin the Fauquier (Va.) Artillery beforetransferring to Mosbys Rangers. The 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, also known as Mosby's Rangers, Mosby's Raiders, or Mosby's Men, was a battalion of partisan cavalry in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. After the war, Sam was the chaplain of the African-American 4th Immune Regiment in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, became the superintendent of public schools in Virginias Allegheny County, and served as the deputy U.S. marshal for the Western District of Virginia in 1909. Mosby's Rangers: Directed by Frank McDonald. These groups included Mosby's Rangers and McNeil's Rangers, a partisan ranger group fighting in the area of the South Branch Valley, in what is now West Virginia.11. And now at this moment of bidding you a final adieu accept the assurance of my unchanging confidence and regard. He was a rather dour and taciturn individual, but Jeffries, whom he married on February 25, 1864, evidently coaxed a softer persona out of him. He was so valuable to the Confederacy that many Union officers tried and failed to capture him (he, however, captured Union General Edwin Stoughton). His well-varnished account of it was that I ordered him to be shot at sunrise, that he said he hoped it would be a foggy morning, and that I was so much amused by his reply that I relented and pardoned him. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. "[14] Union cavalry initially armed with the traditional sabre fought at a considerable disadvantage: The Federal cavalry generally fought with sabres; at any rate they carried them, and Mosby used to say they were as useless against a skillfully handled revolver as the wooden swords of harlequins. According to the memoirs of former partisan Munson, Mosby welcomed volunteers attracted by the glory of the fight and the allure of booty, and had an eye for intelligence, valor, resourcefulness, but "what Mosby liked best was youth. Lonely Willie becomes pals with his Union army counterpart, Corporal Jenkins. Died October 8, 1899. Buried inMount Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Today, theMosby Heritage Area Associationruns tours and educational programs to educate folks about Mosby's Confederacy. Following General Robert E. Lees surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, Mosby tasked William with leading a negotiating team to meet with Union authorities about specific terms for surrender. Reference: 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Mosby's Command. He wasconnected with the wholesale drug firmof James Bailey & Son in Baltimore afterthe war. Post War: Mosby was only 31 when the war ended, but was constantly harassed by occupying Union troops. It took a personal letter to now President Grant to stop the practice. . This proved useful to Confederate military raiding. Perfect for this fighting style were Mosbys Rangers, most of whom were young, between 17-25, who sought the glory of war on horseback. Mosby's area of operations was Northern Virginia from the Shenandoah Valley to the west, along the Potomac River to Alexandria to the east, bounded on the south by the Rappahannock River, with most of his operations centered in or near Fauquier and Loudoun counties, in an area known as "Mosby's Confederacy". [11], Munson's denial of the use of Union blue is contradicted by another source however. At the order to charge, my men dashed forward with a yell that startled and stunned the enemyit was saferbeing the aggressor and striking the enemy at unguarded points. If necessary, Mosbys men were to escape into the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains. By the time of Mosby's death in 1916, the people of Virginia had softened their feelings towards him. Instead of surrendering, Mosby's command simply disbanded. Kathleen Golden is an associate curator in the Division of Armed Forces History. . Stuart, Massow joined Mosby. Oldest Merrills Marauder MG Milton Pitcher Dies at 100. . Ten days later, April 9th, Confederate commanding General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia. He later scouted for Stuart during the Second Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg campaigns. The men then dismounted and went to work again. Frances was a milliner and opened a shop in town while Miletus ran a general store. *Lighting a path to truth* Former Navy JAG Worldwide U.S. Military Defense. Another Ranger, Englishman Bradford Smith Hoskins, was not as lucky. Uncle offuture Princeton football hero JohnPrentiss Poe Jr. Died October 11, 1891, in New York. The reorganization of the Confederate Artillery in 1862 caused the official disbanding of their unit on October 4 and the reassignment of the brothers to recruiting officer duty in Virginias Fauquier County. Mosby assembled his men at Salem on April 21, and the command disbanded. According to Chapmans obituary in the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily, published September 7, 1929: General [Winfield Scott] Hancock, to whom Colonel Chapman surrendered his command, was so impressed by the spirit of the young Confederate that he wrote in his report that in healing the wounds of war and reuniting the country This young man will be valuable to the government. The prophecy was fulfilled in a life of devotion to the interests of the south without bitterness toward his former foes. Hoskins threatened him with his saber and said, Surrender, you damn Yankee. The Union soldier replied, The hell I will, and shot Hoskins in the neck and back. Mosby often played up his exploits to gain attention in the press for his unit and to emphasize the fact that the 43rd Battalion was a legitimate military command within the command structure of the Confederate States of America's army. The battalion was formed in June, 1863, with five companies, later increased to eight. Anything they brought back, they would give to the quartermaster, a military officer who was in charge of providing food, clothing, and other necessities, and in return, they would get paid. Died July 8, 1869. You select the Union targets for your raids and decide which actions Mosby's . Unaware of their objectivethe secretive . He disagreed with the practice of slavery and tried to explain his reasons for still fighting for the South. One of Mosby's men, Munson stated in memoirs published after the war that "the term [guerrilla] was not applied to us in the South in any general way until after the war, when we had made the name glorious, and in time we became as indifferent to it as the whole South to the word Rebel. Worked for several years as theclerk of the Court of Common Pleas inBaltimore, and as a U.S. Army paymasterin 1888. At least partially in retaliation for the recent ranger executions in Front Royal, Mosby, through a lottery process, identified seven Federal prisoners to be hanged. In his will, he donated to theLibrary of Congress a vast collection ofletters written by George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, JamesMadison, and other notables in Americanhistory. Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself. HIBBS. By November 1864, Mosby and his rangers were largely on their own in the Shenandoah Valley war. RecPak is a meal replacement for the outdoors that saves you weight, space and time in the most challenging environments, just add water. Mosby, who, it must be noted, was not given his famous sobriquet The Gray Ghost until well after the war, was an intelligent, tough, audacious, and innovative leader. His breast and forelegs were covered with clotted blood which had flowed from an ugly bullet wound. They burned 'em. [citation needed]. They operated from 1863 to 1865 south of the Potomac, behind the Union lines. for their lightning strike raids on Union targets and their ability to Attended College ofWilliam & Mary in 1860-61. Known as the "Gray Ghost," Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby, along with his partisan rangers, terrorized Federal units in northern Virginia from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865. A cursory review of unit rosters from both sides during the war reveals many family connections. Enlisted as a private in the Washington(Va.) Mounted Rifles on May 14, 1861. Even at that supreme moment in my life, when I had just stood on the brink of ruin and had barely escaped, I could not restrain a propensity to laugh. The second purpose was to promote the use of guerrilla warfare to help protect areas where there was little protection from the army. I doubt whether he prayed that day for the souls of those he sent over the Stygian river. Mosby usually conducted his operations with as few as twenty or as many as one or two hundred, but he . We had no reason to use a blue uniform as a disguise, for there was no occasion to do so. By the end of the war, its roster would number almost 2,000 men. He wasknown to every man in the Command and to everybody in that country, as a fighter.. Confederate Congress revoked the authority of all partisan units, except for "[7], The unit also utilized child soldiers. . Attorney for the Southern PacificRailroad in 1885-1901. Henry's parents, Miletus and Frances Harris, had moved to Scottsville from Louisa County about 1837. The Scouts never fought Mosby again. He was named the Consul to Hong Kong, a position he held for eight years and served in the Justice Department as well as a lawyer for the railroad. Gen. George A. Custer ordered the burning of five Berryville-area properties including the home of Benjamin Morgan. 7. But the enemy came up in time to make it hot for our rear guard. Seeing a comrade in arms struggling through the waves some distance off and not receiving that attention from the Federal soldiers which he thought due to his rank, Cab cried out at the top of his voice, Hurry up, Major Hibbs! They hauled in 1,600 horses and mules, 230 beef cattle, 85 wagons and ambulances, and 1,200 captured, killed or wounded, including Union Brig. Many local names were represented on the roster of the Chinquapin Rangers. Began Partisan Ranger career inJanuary 1863 with nine men loaned tohim by Stuart. The conflict between Mosbys Rangers and Sheridans troops in the Valley became increasingly brutal. Last edited on 11 December 2022, at 09:05, General Grant ordered several captured partisans hanged for being out of uniform, List of West Virginia Civil War Confederate units, "Prince George's County: Over 300 years of History: CIVIL WAR", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=43rd_Virginia_Cavalry_Battalion&oldid=1126802426. [25] In discussing as Mosby's "greatest piece of annoyance", the Greenback Raid in which Mosby's men derailed a train and captured a $170,000 payroll from the paymasters of Philip Sheridan's army (each of the 80 raiders received a $2100 share, though Mosby himself took nothing), Munson says that due to Mosby's comparatively tiny force, [i]t was necessary for the Federal troops to guard every wagon train, railroad bridge and camp with enough active and efficient men to prevent Mosby from using his three hundred raiders in one of his destructive rushes at any hour of the day or night. CHARLES EDWARDGROGAN,1st Lieutenant, Company D. Author McHenry Howard referred toGrogan as having as little sense of fearand danger as any man he had everseen. Captured at Gettysburg whileserving on Maj. Gen. Isaac Trimblesstaff and sent to the Johnsons IslandPOW camp in Ohio. Threats of bodily harm to him and his family forced Mosby to give up his law practice and leave his home in Warrenton, Virginia. Sheridan's army. Hockman, Noah Remy Van Lierde: The Belgian WWII Ace Who Encountered a 50 Feet Long Snake? It has been said that we wore blue to deceive the enemy, but this is ridiculous, for we were always in the enemy's country where a Southern soldier caught dressed in a blue uniform would have been treated to a swift court-martial and shot as a spy. By 1890, he had the supreme command of the Prussian cavalry. Sheridan had burned out most of the farms and crops. permission to raise a company in January 1863 under the Partisan Ranger Act of Facing off in a farm field owned by the Gold family about one-half mile south of Berryville, Chapman split his companies into two attack wings and charged, yelling and screaming. On April 21, 1865, Mosby disbanded rather than surrender the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry in Salem, Va. (today Marshall). He also said that after he got to the burning cars he made up for lost time. 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