The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby is a classic Civil War memoir by the great Southern cavalry leader, the “Grey Ghost”, John S. Mosby. In the American Civil War, or the War Between the States, three dashing cavalry leaders–Stuart, Forrest, and Mosby–so captured the public imagination that their exploits took on a glamour, which we associate–as did the writers of the time–with the deeds of the Waverley characters and the heroes of Chivalry. Of the three leaders Colonel John S. Mosby (1833-1916) was, perhaps, the most romantic figure. In the South his dashing exploits made him one of the great heroes of the “Lost Cause.” In the North he was painted as the blackest of redoubtable scoundrels.