Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir.
Synopsis
The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. "No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby."-Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.
Synopsis
Colonel John S. Mosby was one of the Confederacy's most effective and colorful cavalry leaders. Operating in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., Mosby's independent command waged guerrilla war behind Federal lines in what came to be called "Mosby's Confederacy". Mosby's Memoirs were written toward the end of his life and were published posthumously in 1917.