JOHN S MOSBY CONFEDERATE GUERRILLA WARFARE CS CAVALRY TEXAS RANGERS CSA C.S.A.

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JOHN S MOSBY CONFEDERATE GUERRILLA WARFARE CS CAVALRY TEXAS RANGERS CSA C.S.A.:
$295.00

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MOSBY GUERRILLA

This sale is for an original 1906 1ST EDITION OF \"REMINISCENCES OF A MOSBY GUERRILLA\" by John W. Munson, published by Moffat, Yard and Company of New York.

Published in 1906, these are the recollections of John Munson during his time serving under Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby during the Civil War. Within this fascinating volume, it is hoped that if will pass down to future generations a glimpse of the character that made it possible for JOHN S. MOSBY, the greatest and most daring “Raider” this country has ever known, to organize, command, and lead to innumerable victories, the men and boys who became world famous as “Mosby’s Guerrillas.”

Accompanying this book are 16 ILLUSTRATIONS throughout the book!

Mosby welcomed volunteers attracted by the glory and allure of the fight . He searched for intelligence, valor, resourcefulness, but \"what Mosby liked best was youth. His philosophy was as such by scouting young men or mere boys, ones that did not have attachments to family or ties to wives and young children, proved to be a better selection of choice. A few partisans were wizened old men but most were in their late teens or early 20\'s.

Exactly what to call the Confederate 43rd Battalion was controversial in their own day. Were they soldiers, partisan rangers, or guerrillas hiding among civilians, simply a loose band of roving thieves? According to the memoirs of one of Mosby\'s men, John Munson, Mosby himself avoided overtly military words like \"troops\" or \"soldiers\" or \"battalion\" in favor of the more comradely \"Mosby\'s Men\" or \"Mosby\'s command\". The Yankees and Northern newspapers referred to them as guerrillas, a term of opprobrium at the time. Munson reports \"the term (guerilla) was not applied to us in the South in any general way until after the war, when we had made the name glorious, and in time we became as indifferent to it as the whole South to the word Rebel.

The 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, also known as Mosby\'s Rangers, Mosby\'s Raiders or Mosby\'s Men, was a battalion of partisan cavalry in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. Noted for their lightning strikes on Union targets and their ability to consistently elude pursuit, the Rangers disrupted Federal communications and supply lines.

The 43rd Battalion was formed on June 10, 1863, at Rector\'s Cross Roads, near Rectortown, Virginia, when John S. Mosby formed Company A of the battalion. Mosby was acting under the authority of General Robert E. Lee, who had granted him permission to raise a company in January 1863 under the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862, in which the Confederate Congress authorized the formation of such units. By the summer of 1864, Mosby\'s battalion had grown to six cavalry companies and one artillery company, comprising about 400 men. After February 1864, the Confederate Congress revoked the authority of all partisan units, except for two, one of which was the 43rd Battalion. The battalion never formally surrendered, but was disbanded on April 21, 1865, after General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, but not before attempting to negotiate surrender with Major General Winfield S. Hancock in Winchester, Virginia.

This 277 paged volume consists of 24 CHAPTERS:

THE BIRTH OF THE RANGERS

JOINING THE RANGERS

HOW WE LIVED

THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL STOUGHTON

THE FIGHT AT MISKELL\'S BARN

WARRENTON JUNCTION AND CATLETT’S STATION

DRANESVILLE AND ELSEWHERE

A NARROW ESCAPE

THE BERRYVILLE FIGHT

TURNING THE TABLES

A CHAPTER OF PERSONALITIES

AN UNPLEASANT EPISODE

INCIDENTS

I AM CAPTURED

I ESCAPE

TRYING FOR BIG GAME

THE SUTLER

THE CELEBRATED GREENBACK RAID

GLIMPSES OF GUERRILLA LIFE

THE CHIEF

THE COLONEL\'S SERIOUS WOUNDING

THE GUERRILLA\'S LAST FIGHT

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

THE RANGERS DISBAND

Published in 1906, this book is in GOOD CONDTION for its age, especially to be 109 YEARS OLD. Good condition. Some shelf wear and rubbing on cover and spine, small wear through of cloth on cover edge and base of spine. Previous owners names on inside cover. Light discoloration of pages. From the private library of Murray Forbes as indicated by the library stamp on title page. The exterior original cloth cover retains its rich gilt title on the cover and spine areas. There are informative pictures depicting member of Mosby\'s men, to include the author. This book offers 277 pages and measures 5 3/4\" X 8 1/4\". It is RARE and when offered on international book sites, it commands a nice price.