The Kinston-Lenoir County Civil War Round Table will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Queen Street Deli. The program for the evening will be Mosby’s Rangers. The Confederacy had its share of heroic Cavalry officers, including J.E.B. Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest, but none had quite the mystique of Col. John S. Mosby, known as "The Gray Ghost."
The speaker will be Horace Mewborn, a noted authority on Civil War History. He is a native of Kinston and a graduate of Grainger High School. He graduated from Campbell College and then spent seven years in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of captain. During that time, he spent five years in Special Forces and 30 months in Vietnam.
After leaving the army, he attended ECU and graduated with a degree in accounting. He then joined the FBI as a special agent serving in New York and Washington, D. C. He retired after 21 years.
Mewborn co-authored the “43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry: Mosby's Command” for the Virginia Regimental Series, and compiled and edited “From Mosby's Command,” a collection of newspaper articles by and about John Mosby and his Rangers.
He has also written five articles for “Blue and Gray Magazine” – three concern the actions of John Mosby, one is about Jeb Stuart’s ride around the Army of the Potomac in June 1862, and the last covered Wade Hampton’s cattle raid in September 1864.
The Civil War Roundtable is a group of people with an interest in the American Civil War, and its mission is to study the history of that war, to stimulate interest and promote education in a broad range of topics related to that war, and to aid in the preservation and enhancement of its battlefields.
The public is invited to attend this meeting. Dues are $25 a year. For information, contact Jane Phillips at 252-469-1424.