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General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel - Softcover

O'Flaherty, Daniel

 
9780807848784: General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807848786 ISBN 13: 9780807848784
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders — and certainly the most colorful. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, but drawn by the promise of the growing West, Shelby became one of the richest men in Missouri. Siding with the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized his Iron Brigade of cavalry — whose ranks included Frank and Jesse James — taught his men a slashing frontier style of fighting, and led them on incredible raids against Federal forces in Missouri. When the Confederacy fell, Shelby refused to surrender and instead took his command to Mexico, where they fought in support of the emperor Maximilian. Upon his return to Missouri, Shelby became an immensely popular figure in the state, eventually attaining the status of folk hero, a living symbol of the Civil War in the West. “O'Flaherty has written a first-rate book . . . combining careful scholarship with the ability to tell a story in an engaging manner.” — Saturday Review “An interesting and readable life story of a long neglected Confederate general.” — Military Affairs

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel O'Flaherty was a reporter, radio executive, and magazine writer who lived in Richmond, Virginia.

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This biography reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as perhaps the best--and certainly the most colorful--Confederate cavalry leader in the Civil War battles that took place in the West.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807848786
ISBN 13 
9780807848784
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
462
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