John Singleton Mosby

Among the thousands of young men who poured into the Shenandoah Valley in 1861 to join Joe Johnston's army was a scrawny private who would rise through the ranks to become one of the most daring and innovative leaders in the Confederate army. ARmed only with colt revolvers, Colonel John S. Mosby and his reiders spread terror behind enemy lines with their hit and run cavalry tactics. Mosby's memboirs recount in stirring detail how his ragtag band of...