Memoirs of Service With John Yates Beall, C.S.N.

Known as the "Terror of the Chesapeake," Captain John Yates Beall - son of a prominent Virginia family - practiced the same variety of warfare on the seas as his counterparts Mosby and Morgan did on horseback, and wreaked the same sort of havoc until he was finally captured and hanged as a spy just two months before the war ended. Out of print for many years until now, Memoirs of Service With John Yates Beall, C.S.N. offers a close-up and humanizing look at a forgotten member of the South's...