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Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby
James A. Ramage
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Description for Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby
Paperback. Confederate John Sirigleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exhilarating of military activities: the overnight raid. This biography of Mosby reveals information on various aspects of his life and provides an analysis of his impact on the Civil War from the Union viewpoint. Num Pages: 432 pages, 22 photos, 7 maps, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 717.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813192536
SKU
V9780813192536
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99-50
About James A. Ramage
James A. Ramage, Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, is the author of John Wesley Hunt Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer, and Financier and Rebel Roider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. He lives in Highland Heights, Kentucky.
Reviews for Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby
"Offers a lively, immensely detailed record of Mosby's wartime career and a vivid summary of his equally turbulent postwar life." - New York Times Book Review "No biographer of Mosby has woven the various threads of Mosby's life together as deftly as Ramage does in this portrait of one of the Civil War's most compelling figures." - Civil War Times ... Read more