T.R. do you or anyone else out there know how the Gray Ghost became a close friend of the Pattons - close enough for Mosby to travel from his post CW home in San Francisco to San Marino for visits during George S. Patton's childhood?

No I don't. BUT remember that even the German General Rommel was a student of Stonewall Jackson tactics, and adapted them to his Tank corp in North Africa. So application of Civil War tactics are still used today. I also recall that General Chesty Puller of Marine Corp fame read regularly Henderson's biography of Stonewall Jackson as did General Norman Swartzkoff during the Persian Gulf war in 1990. Do you remember his tactice during that 100 hour War? Pure Stonewall.