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Ashdown, Paul; Caudill, Edward - The Mosby Myth. A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend.  - 9780842029285 - V9780842029285
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The Mosby Myth. A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend.

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Description for The Mosby Myth. A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend. Hardback. Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) was only one of a number of heroes to emerge during the Civil War, yet he holds a singular place in the American imagination. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 231 pages, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) was only one of a number of heroes to emerge during the Civil War, yet he holds a singular place in the American imagination. He is the irrepressible rebel with a cause, the horseman who emerges from the forest to protect the embattled farmer and his household and bring retribution to the invader. Mosby was the fabled 'Gray Ghost' of the Confederacy, a mythic cavalry officer who operated with virtual impunity behind Union lines near Washington, D.C. Within his lifetime, and continuing to the present, Mosby has been appropriated as a cultural symbol. Mosby ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Series
The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780842029285
SKU
V9780842029285
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Ashdown, Paul; Caudill, Edward
Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill are professors of journalism at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Reviews for The Mosby Myth. A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend.
Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill provide an outstanding, thoroughly researched, and entertaining analysis of the Mosby legend in American popular culture.
James A. Ramage, Northern Kentucky University Here is a first-rate study of how we as a people come to know what we think we know about our historical past.
James Ogden III, historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National ... Read more

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