Gray Ghost

The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby

By: James A. Ramage

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Paperback | 1 January 2010

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"Click here to read a sample chapter from this book Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exciting 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. For more than twenty-seven months Mosby led daring raids behind Union pickets and created false alarms up and down the Potomac. Although he never commanded more than four hundred men, his forces were regularly overestimated, once by a factor of forty. Union officials dispatched more than seventy search and destroy missions against him, but he retained the tactical advantage until Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox ended the war. Mosby's dynamic personality, forged in childhood, was the foundation for his success as a guerrilla chief, but it was also his greatest weakness. Attempting to repeat patterns of heroic conflict after the war, he threw away his status as a leading southern hero and sacrificed a lucrative law practice to support the Republican party and U.S. Grant's campaign for the presidency. Forced into exile from his native Virginia, Mosby again charged into controversy. During his service as U.S. consul in Hong Kong, he worked to reform the office and single-handedly exposed the corruption of his predecessors. When his bosses in the State Department balked, Mosby sent information directly to President Hayes and, eventually, exposed the wrong-doing to the Washington Post. In retirement, Mosby continued in his well-worn role of underdog by authoring the first defense of Jeb Stuart's actions at Gettysburg, exposing Lee's role in the debacle.

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"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 "The most thoroughly researched biography of Mosby to date." - Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star"

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies History Regional & National History History of the Americas Military History American Civil War Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Mosby's Weapon of Fear	p. 1
The Weakling and the Bullies	p. 11
"Virginia is my mother. "	p. 28
Scouting behind Enemy Lines	p. 36
Capturing a Yankee General in Bed	p. 58
Miskel's Farm	p. 77
Featherbed Guerrillas	p. 96
Unguarded Sutler Wagons	p. 105
Masquerading as the Enemy	p. 120
Seddon's Partisans	p. 131
Mosby's Clones in the Valley	p. 147
The Night Belonged to Mosby	p. 165
Blue Hen's Chickens and Custer's Wolverines	p. 184
The Lottery	p. 201
Sheridan's Mosby Hunt	p. 216
Sheridan's Burning Raid	p. 228
Apache Ambuscades, Stockades, and Prisons	p. 243
"All that the proud can feel of pain"	p. 262
Grant's Partisan in Virginia	p. 271
Hayes's Reformer in Hong Kong	p. 285
Stuart and Gettysburg	p. 300
Roosevelt's Land Agent in the Sand Hills	p. 318
The Gray Ghost of Television and Film	p. 333
Conclusion	p. 344
Notes	p. 349
Bibliographic Essay	p. 401
Acknowledgments	p. 407
Index	p. 411
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The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby

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