Mosby And His Rangers

Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128847
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosby's Rangers written by Jeffry D. Wert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. As one contemporary said, “They had…all the glamour of Robin Hood…all the courage and bravery of the ancient crusaders.” Better known as Mosby’s Rangers, they were an elite guerrilla unit that operated with stunning success in northern Virginia and Maryland from 1863 to the last days of the war. In this vivid account of the famous command of John Singleton Mosby, Jeffry D. Wert explores the personality of this iron-willed commander and brilliant tactician and gives us colorful profiles of the officers who served under him. Drawing on contemporary documents, including letters and diaries, this is the most complete and vivid account to date of the fighting unit that was so hated by General Ulysses S. Grant that he ordered any captured Ranger to be summarily executed without trial.

Author : John Singleton Mosby
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby written by John Singleton Mosby and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1917 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colonel Mosby was a 'Virginian of the Virginians', educated at the State's University, and seemed destined to pass his life as an obscure Virginia attorney, when war brought him his opportunity for fame. The following pages contain the story of his life as private in the cavalry, as a scout, and as a leader as partisans"--Introduction.

Author : Annie Barrows
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408870541
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic in the Mix written by Annie Barrows and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miri and Molly were not always sisters, but thanks to the time-travelling magic of their family's home, they are now twins, and about to start settling down to a normal life when the house unleashes another challenge that sends them back into the past. And this time around they've got twice as much to lose ... Brimming with lovable characters and spine-tingling magic, this book will bring new readers to Annie Barrows' highly acclaimed, wonderfully popular world of twin-inspired magic.

Author : Robert W. Black
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081174955X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard written by Robert W. Black and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted Ranger historian Robert W. Black turns his attention to a trio of the Confederacy's--and America's--most infamous raiders and cavalrymen: John Singleton Mosby, John Hunt Morgan, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Combining speed, mobility, and boldness, these three soldiers struck critical blows against the Union during the Civil War, including Morgan's notorious 1863 raid that penetrated farther north than any other uniformed Confederate force. While not overlooking their flaws, Black believes these men revolutionized warfare and sees them as forerunners of the Rangers and Special Forces of the modern era.

Author : Kevin H. Siepel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803233744
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel written by Kevin H. Siepel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebel is the first complete biography of the Confederacy’s best-known partisan commander, John Singleton Mosby, the “Gray Ghost.” A practicing attorney in Virginia and at first a reluctant soldier, in 1861 Mosby took to soldiering with a vengeance, becoming one of the Confederate army’s highest-profile officers, known especially for his cavalry battalion’s continued and effective harassment of Union armies in northern Virginia. Although hunted after the war and regarded, in fact, as the last Confederate officer to surrender, he later became anathema to former Confederates for his willingness to forget the past and his desire to heal the nation’s wounds. Appointed U.S. consul in Hong Kong, he soon initiated an anticorruption campaign that ruined careers in the Far East and Washington. Then, following a stint as a railroad attorney in California, he surfaced again as a government investigator sent by President Theodore Roosevelt to tear down cattlemen’s fences on public lands in the West. Ironically, he ended his career as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Author : Thomas J. Evans
Publisher : White Mane Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781572492783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosby's Confederacy written by Thomas J. Evans and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides the reader through Mosby's battles and his early years. As some of Mosby's trails erode and buildings he used come down, many of the photographs can never be retaken. Includes both long and short tours the reader can take.

Author : Susan Provost Beller
Publisher : Betterway Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781558702653
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosby and His Rangers written by Susan Provost Beller and published by Betterway Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride with the Gray Ghost of the Confederacy in Mosby and His Rangers as a small group of guerilla fighters keep thousands of Union troops tied up defending Washington. Presenting the excitement of the raids in the words of the Rangers, the book then carefully puts their controversial tactics within the larger perspective of the resulting Union punishment of civilians.

Author : James J. Williamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosby's Rangers written by James J. Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a soldier's life serving under Colonel Mosby from the first muster up to the surrender and disbandment.

Author : John Mosby
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813127122
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Sides with the Truth written by John Mosby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby’s Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of the war, more than 2000 men were members of Mosby’s command, some for only a short time. Mosby had few confidants (he was described by one acquaintance as “a disturbing companion”) but became close friends with one of his finest officers, Samuel Forrer Chapman. Chapman served with Mosby for more than two years, and their friendship continued in the decades after the war. Take Sides with the Truth is a collection of more than eighty letters, published for the first time in their entirety, written by Mosby to Chapman from 1880, when Mosby was made U.S. consul to Hong Kong, until his death in a Washington, D.C., hospital in 1916. These letters reveal much about Mosby’s character and present his innermost thoughts on many subjects. At times, Mosby’s letters show a man with a sensitive nature; however, he could also be sarcastic and freely derided individuals he did not like. His letters are critical of General Robert E. Lee’s staff officers (“there was a lying concert between them”) and trace his decades-long crusade to clear the name of his friend and mentor J. E. B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign. Mosby also continuously asserts his belief that slavery was the cause of the Civil War—a view completely contrary to a major portion of the Lost Cause ideology. For him, it was more important to “take sides with the Truth” than to hold popular opinions. Peter A. Brown has brought together a valuable collection of correspondence that adds a new dimension to our understanding of a significant Civil War figure.

Author : John Singleton Mosby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosby's War Reminiscences and Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns written by John Singleton Mosby and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a personal narrative of the experiences and correspondence of Confederate officer John S. Mosby during the U.S. Civil War.