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The Gray Ghost: The Memoirs of Col. John S. Mosby
The Gray Ghost The Memoirs of Col John S Mosby Author:John S. Mosby Among the thousands of young men who poured into the Shenandoah Valley in 1861 to join Joe Johnston's army was a scrawny private who would rise through the ranks to become one of the most daring and innovative leaders in the Confederate army. Armed only with Colt revolvers, Colonel John S. Mosby and his raiders spread terror behind ene... more »my lines with their hit-and-run cavalry tactics.
Mosby's memoirs recount in stirring detail how his ragtag band of partisans carried out their attacks and offer his own frank assessments of the great battles and men of the Civil War from Bull Run to Gettysburg, from General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant, who placed a bounty on Mosby's head and later became a close friend. Here is the unsparing self-portrait of a hard-driving warrior, a man whose troops adored him, whose enemies feared him, and who would go down in history as the famed "Gray Ghost of the Confederacy".« less