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