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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramage, James A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.