Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby

by Kevin H Siepel

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John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) was the Confederacy's best-known practitioner of guerrilla warfare. At heart a Unionist, he nonetheless joined the Southern cause when his homestate of Virginia seceded. He served first in the cavalry and later as commander of a partisan unit in Northern Virginia, where his operations tied up such large numbers of Federal troops that sufficient force could not be gathered to break Robert E. Lee's army till April 1865. Mosby's narrow escapes and impossible exploits (including the capture of a Union general from his bed) earned him a status as a cavalry commander equal to Stuart...Read more
  • ISBN10 0312665598
  • ISBN13 9780312665593
  • Publish Date 1 December 1983
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint St. Martin's Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 346
  • Language English