Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby - Couverture souple

Siepel, Kevin H.

 
9780803216099: Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803216092 ISBN 13 : 9780803216099
Editeur : Bison Books, 2008

Synopsis

Rebel is the first complete biography of the Confederacy's best-known partisan commander, John Singleton Mosby, the "Gray Ghost." A practicing attorney in Virginia and at first a reluctant soldier, in 1861 Mosby took to soldiering with a vengeance, becoming one of the Confederate army's highest-profile officers, known especially for his cavalry battalion's continued and effective harassment of Union armies in northern Virginia. Although hunted after the war and regarded, in fact, as the last Confederate officer to surrender, he later became anathema to former Confederates for his willingness to forget the past and his desire to heal the nation's wounds. Appointed U.S. consul in Hong Kong, he soon initiated an anticorruption campaign that ruined careers in the Far East and Washington. Then, following a stint as a railroad attorney in California, he surfaced again as a government investigator sent by President Theodore Roosevelt to tear down cattlemen's fences on public lands in the West. Ironically, he ended his career as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kevin H. Siepel is also the author of Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York's Niagara Frontier. Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005) represented Minnesota in both House and Senate and played a key role in the presidential race of 1968. Peter A. Brown is the editor of Take Sides with the Truth: The Postwar Letters of John Singleton Mosby to Samuel F. Chapman. Benjamin Franklin Cooling is the author of a number of books on the Civil War, most recently Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam (Nebraska 2007).

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Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803216092
ISBN 13 
9780803216099
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780312665593: Rebel, the life and times of John Singleton Mosby

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0312665598 ISBN 13 :  9780312665593
Editeur : St. Martin's Press, 1727
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