Gray Ghosts Of The Confederacy

Author : Richard S. Brownlee
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807111628
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1983-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who—under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson—plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theater of the Civil War. Among their numbers were Frank and Jesse James and Cole and James Younger, who would later become infamous by extending the tactics they had learned during the war into civilian life.

Author : Richard S. Brownlee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Confederate guerrillas who -- under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson -- plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theater of the Civil War. Among their numbers were Frank and Jesse James and Cole and James Younger, who would later become infamous by extending the tactic they had learned during the war into civilian life.

Author : Richard S. Brownlee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard S. Brownlee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gaines M. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195054202
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Gaines M. Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals, this book explores how white southerners interpreted the Civil War, accepted defeat, and readily embraced reunion and a New South. It reveals that while the Lost Cause was a central force in shaping late 19th-century southern culture, the legacy of defeat ultimately had little impact on southern behavior.

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497521063
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gray Ghost of the Confederacy written by Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures. *Includes accounts of fighting written by Mosby and other generals. *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading. “Our poor country has fallen a prey to the conqueror. The noblest cause ever defended by the sword is lost. The noble dead that sleep in their shallow though honored graves are far more fortunate than their survivors. I thought I had sounded the profoundest depth of human feeling, but this is the bitterest hour of my life.” – John Mosby The Civil War is best remembered for the big battles and the legendary generals who fought on both sides, like Robert E. Lee facing off against Ulysses S. Grant in 1864. In kind, the Eastern theater has always drawn more interest and attention than the West. However, while massive armies marched around the country fighting each other, there were other small guerrilla groups that engaged in irregular warfare on the margins, and perhaps the most famous of them was Colonel John Mosby. Mosby, the “Gray Ghost” of the Confederate lore that celebrates the Lost Cause, has an image that has proven nearly impossible to corrupt or change, and time has done little good against it. Unlike the vanished 19th century code of honor that he represented, Mosby has retained the image and all its connotations; evident in the pictures taken of him in his Confederate uniform and historical portrayals of him, whether they were written just after the Civil War or much later. But that image, which he helped fashioned, was mostly an invention. Mosby styled himself a “Knight of the South”, as other Virginians would do during the war, branding himself as a warrior of a culture who obeyed an unspoken code of honor. He defended women and lived by his word. Even the style of combat he chose conformed to the definition of honor that Southerners held. With repeated charges into the ranks of federal cavalry, Mosby was lionized by a culture that gloried in the acts of heroic violence. As the war dragged on, Mosby claimed to fight a style of war that was honorable, but if the Union ever entered into acts he considered uncivilized, he was never beyond revenge, including notorious summary executions of prisoners of war. He was so reviled in the North that rumors quickly spread that Mosby knew of John Wilkes Booth's conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, and that he may have even assisted in it. While the South would come to idolize “Southern gentlemen” as epitomized by Robert E. Lee, Mosby operated under a far different nature. Though he enlisted with the Confederate army in Virginia after Fort Sumter, he ultimately left the infantry to join J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, and he later became infamous as an irregular scout leading a group of rangers around Virginia. Of course, the successful feats of daring that Mosby would accomplish during the war, which included capturing a Union general and riding around behind enemy lines to raid and destroy supplies, were supported by the people of Virginia, thus legitimizing his unconventional move to leave army life. Mosby not only earned the nickname “Gray Ghost” by being elusive, he was so successful that part of Virginia was known as “Mosby's Confederacy” during the war, despite the presence of massive Union armies nearby. Mosby did all this while looking the part of a diminutive man, a physical appearance that Southern culture did not generally view as masculine. In fact, his small size, just 5'8 and 125 pounds, might actually have provoked his aggression. Either way, Mosby overcame and looked the part as a cavalier on a horse, weathered by the elements and war but never beaten down by the enemy he looked down upon from his mount. The Gray Ghost of the Confederacy chronicles the life of Mosby, as well as his Civil War record and legacy. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Gray Ghost like never before, in no time at all.

Author : Virgil Carrington Jones
Publisher : Mockingbird Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders written by Virgil Carrington Jones and published by Mockingbird Books. This book was released on 1956 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploits of the Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War were real and damaging, but the men themselves appeared only briefly on hilltops before disappearing into the mist. Jones's much-praised account of these courageous and unpredictable partisans has changed interpretations of the war's final stage.

Author : James Ramage
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129451
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghost written by James Ramage and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exhilarating of military activities: the overnight raid. Mosby possessed a genius for guerrilla and psychological warfare, taking control of the dark to make himself the "Gray Ghost" of Union nightmares. Gray Ghost, the first full biography of Confederate raider John Mosby, reveals new information on every aspect of Mosby’s life, providing the first analysis of his impact on the Civil War from the Union viewpoint.

Author : Virgil Carrington Jones
Publisher : Galahad Books
ISBN 13 : 9780883940921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders written by Virgil Carrington Jones and published by Galahad Books. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells for the first time the story of guerilla warfare during the Civil War -- an exciting account of the incredible adventures of such Rebel leaders as Harry Gilmor, "Lige" White, Turner Ashby, Hanse McNeill, and the indefatigable Mosby, and their courageous and daring efforts to prevent Northern forces from sweeping through the South"--Flyleaf

Author : Richard S. Brownlee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758194091
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: