"My purpose was to weaken the armies invading Virginia, by harassing their rear…To destroy supply trains, to break up the means of conveying intelligence, and thus isolating an army from its base, as well as its different corps from each other, to confuse their plans by capturing their dispatches, are the objects of partisan war.  It is just as legitimate to fight an enemy in the rear as in the front.  The only difference is in the danger….."
                                                        John S. Mosby