Gray ghost : the life of Col. John Singleton Mosby /
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 fir...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mosby's weapon of fear
- The weakling and the bullies
- Virginia is my mother
- Scouting behind enemy lines
- Capturing a Yankee general in bed
- Miskel's farm
- Featherbed guerillas
- Unguarded sutler wagons
- Masquerading as the enemy
- Seddon's partisans
- Mosby's clones in the valley
- The night belonged to Mosby
- Blue Hen's chickens and Custer's wolverines
- The lottery
- Sheridan's Mosby hunt
- Sheridan's burning raid
- Apache ambuscades, stockades, and prisons
- All that the proud can feel of pain
- Grant's partisan in Virginia
- Hayes's reformer in Hong Kong
- Stuart and Gettysburg
- Roosevelt's land agent in the Sand Hills
- The Gray Ghost of television and film.