Mosby's Memoirs

by John S. Mosby

Overview

The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. “No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby.”—Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879941274
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/13/1995
Series:	Southern Classics Series
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) studied at the University of Virginia and was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1854. Upon the secession of Virginia he entered the Confederate military service and subsequently formed an independent cavalry unit which operated behind Union lines in a region that came to be known as “Mosby’s Confederacy.” After the war, Mosby held several U.S. Government posts, including a consulship in Hong Kong.