Paul Ashdown & Edward Caudill, The Mosby Myth, 1st Ed., Signed

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In The Mosby Myth, Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill explore the legend of the Gray Ghost of the Confederacy.

Colonel John Singleton Mosby holds a singular place in the American imagination. He emerged from the Civil War as the irrepressible rebel with a cause, the horseman who emerges from the forest to protect the embattled farmer and his household and brings retribution to the invader. Mosby was the fabled “Gray Ghost” of the Confederacy, a mythic cavalry officer who operated with virtual impunity behind Union lines near Washington. Within his lifetime, and continuing to the present, Mosby has been appropriated as a cultural symbol. But why has Mosby become a figure of our collective imagination while other heroes of the conflict have not?

This is the first book devoted to explaining Mosby’s place in American culture, myth, and legend.

“Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill provide an outstanding, thoroughly researched and entertaining analysis of the Mosby legend in American popular culture.” – James A. Ramage.

As new. Signed by both authors on bookplate pasted in.

Ashdown, Paul, and Caudill, Edward. THE MOSBY MYTH: A CONFEDERATE HERO IN LIFE AND LEGEND. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002. 1st ed., 231p., frontispiece, illustrations, maps.