Description
The so much definitive volume on guerrilla warfare all the way through the Civil War includes a foreword by the prestigious scholar Bruce Catton and 22 photos and maps. Gray Ghosts introduces a cast of daring and dashing Southern soldiers: John Singleton Mosby, Turner Ashby, and Harry Gilmore, among others. These men used irregular troops and much more irregular methods against the invading Union Army. A fast-paced narrative describes daredevil acts performed by these small, bold bands of fighters, and shows how, over and over, they managed to thwart Union efforts. Defiant to the tip, the “gray ghosts” and insurrection raiders resisted give up after Appomattox and continued to fight until all hope was once gone.
Virgil Carrington Jones
Civil War
Confederacy
folklore