Civil War Stories Re-Visited by Local Author

(Photo: Courtesy Patricia Leslie)

LOCAL AUTHOR Don Hakenson presented Civil War stories from Fairfax County at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library last Saturday. Among the battles and troops Hakenson described were Colonel John Mosby’s fight at Dranesville and “Pony” Ormsby, a Mosby member who originally was a Union fighter and then, deserter, later captured by his former Northern unit and executed in Vienna.

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