The Gray Ghost Of The Confederacy

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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 : Gaines M. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019977210X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Gaines M. Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals such as memorial day observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of the Confederacy probes into how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat and explores the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster argues that, contrary to southern folklore, southerners actually accepted their loss, rapidly embraced both reunion and a New South, and helped to foster sectional reconciliation and an emerging social order. He traces southerners' fascination with the Lost Cause--showing that it was rooted as much in social tensions resulting from rapid change as it was in the legacy of defeat--and demonstrates that the public celebration of the war helped to make the South a deferential and conservative society. Although the ghosts of the Confederacy still haunted the New South, Foster concludes that they did little to shape behavior in it--white southerners, in celebrating the war, ultimately trivialized its memory, reduced its cultural power, and failed to derive any special wisdom from defeat.

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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 : Jessica James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941020005
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Gray Ghost of Civil War Virginia: John Singleton Mosby: A Companion to Jessica James' Historical Fiction Novel Noble Cause written by Jessica James and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No name in the annals of the Civil War conjures up a more romantic and awe-inspiring image than that of Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby of Virginia. The epitome of the Southern cavalier, Colonel Mosby was a charismatic officer whose small band of partisans outwitted and outfought the Union army on the fields and farmlands of northern Virginia. So great was the panic inspired by this one officer's military ingenuity, so prominent was the threat he created to the Union forces, that he came to be known in the north as more of a myth than a man. Award-winning historical fiction and Southern romance author Jessica James penned a unique look at this iconic figure as a way to share this real-life soldier's story with her fiction fans. John Mosby was the model for her fictional character Colonel Alexander Hunter in her novel NOBLE CAUSE (originally called SHADES OF GRAY). Rather than a dry biography of the Confederate hero, this book takes readers on a journey with a ragtag group of Rebels who threw aside the established rules of warfare, effectively using fear as their weapon of choice and surprise as their watchword. Read about this forgotten American Hero in the first of a series of books that look back on those who played a role in shaping our nation.

Author : John Singleton Mosby
Publisher : Domain
ISBN 13 : 9780553296501
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Gray Ghost written by John Singleton Mosby and published by Domain. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the life and military career of John S. Mosby, based on Mosby's own memoirs, offers the soldier's own assessments of the great battles--from Bull Run to Gettysburg--and men--from Grant to Lee--of the Civil War. Reprint.

Author : Bruce S. Allardice
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266487
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Confederate Colonels written by Bruce S. Allardice and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Allardice provides detailed biographical information on 1,583 Confederate colonels, both staff and line officers and members of all armies. In his introduction, he explains how one became a colonel -- the mustering process, election of officers, reorganizing of regiments -- and discusses problems of the nominating process, seniority, and "rank inflation""--Provided by publisher.