
Mosby was only 31 when the war ended. Rebel fully explores his long and eventful career: his political battles; his close friendships with former enemies; his association with presidents from Ulysses S. Grant to Theodore Roosevelt; his service as U.S. consul in Hong Kong and...

Rebel is the first complete biography of the Confederacy's 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...


Chronicles the life and career of John Singleton Mosby, discussing his exploits as a Confederate guerrilla fighter, flamboyant political career, friendship with President Grant, criticism of the South, and anti-corruption campaign.