登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
其他書名
The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2008-07-01
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN97808032337440803233744
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EeuTjkWmZnsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Rebel is the first complete biography of the Confederacyês 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 armyês highest-profile officers, known especially for his cavalry battalionês 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 nationês 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 cattlemenês fences on public lands in the West. Ironically, he ended his career as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.