Mosby and His Men – 1867 | First Edition Confederate Civil War Narrative

Mosby and His Men – 1867 | First Edition Confederate Civil War Narrative

“Since the close of the war, I have come to know Colonel Mosby personally, and somewhat intimately. . . . There were probably but few men in the South who could have commanded successfully a separate detachment, in the rear of an opposing army and so near the border of hostilities, as long as he did without losing his entire command.”

– Ulysses S. Grant, on Mosby

John S. Mosby was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War known for his command of cavalry battalions. His war experiences were recorded in his personal memoirs, or ‘War Reminiscences’, much of which deal with his commands leading directly to guerilla warfare in Northern Virginia, which became known as Mosby’s Confederacy.

According to Nevins on ‘Mosby and his Men’,

“Largely an impersonal narrative of the exploits of the Confederacy’s famed ‘Gray Ghost’; few of the author’s own experiences are included.

Item number: #27905

Price: $950

CRAWFORD, J Marshall

Mosby and his men : a record of the adventures of that renowned partisan ranger, John S. Mosby

New York : G.W. Carleton & Co. ; London : S. Low, Son & Co., 1867. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: complete with all pages
  • 375, [9]
  • 8 plates including frontispiece
• References: Howes C 871; Nevins I, 75; Sabin 17440
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • W. Slaughter
  • M. Colston, 1867
    • Frederick M. Colston was an officer in the Confederate army assigned to Alexander’s Battalion of Artillery under Edward Porter Alexander.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
    • Cloth
  • Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 12.5cm)

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