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Mosby : gray ghost of the Confederacy
American lawyer and Confederate Ranger, in 1863 he recruited an independent body of fighters, which became famous as Mosby's Partisan Rangers. LC no. 59-13254. Fourth Impression.
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First published January 1, 1959
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January 27, 2019
Published in 1959 by J.B. Lippincott Company.
Back in the 1950's and 1960's several publishing houses put out series of biographies aimed at upper elementary students. The most famous of these was Random House's Landmark Series. They were small hardback books with thick pages and lots of line drawings. They were long on action and short on analysis.
This book is similar in every way to that series except that it was printed by the J.B. Lippincott Company.
There is literally nothing about John Mosby's childhood in this biography, which is a little odd since there was a similar series at the same time, with the same physical format called Childhood of Famous Americans published by Bobbs-Merrill.
John Mosby was a Confederate cavalry officer in the Civil War who became a Partisan Ranger. Partisan Rangers were irregular forces, not really part of the armies they supported and able to take shares of any spoils of war that they captured. This book does not discuss any of the moral issues of recruiting an army that fought for spoils (much like the Confederacy's privateer navy), but it makes it clear that Mosby did not take any shares of goods captured.
As I stated above, this book is...
Read more at: https://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/2019...
Back in the 1950's and 1960's several publishing houses put out series of biographies aimed at upper elementary students. The most famous of these was Random House's Landmark Series. They were small hardback books with thick pages and lots of line drawings. They were long on action and short on analysis.
This book is similar in every way to that series except that it was printed by the J.B. Lippincott Company.
There is literally nothing about John Mosby's childhood in this biography, which is a little odd since there was a similar series at the same time, with the same physical format called Childhood of Famous Americans published by Bobbs-Merrill.
John Mosby was a Confederate cavalry officer in the Civil War who became a Partisan Ranger. Partisan Rangers were irregular forces, not really part of the armies they supported and able to take shares of any spoils of war that they captured. This book does not discuss any of the moral issues of recruiting an army that fought for spoils (much like the Confederacy's privateer navy), but it makes it clear that Mosby did not take any shares of goods captured.
As I stated above, this book is...
Read more at: https://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/2019...
December 1, 2024
Phenomenal book.
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