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"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 Confederate army's highest-profile officers,
known especially for his cavalry battalion's continued and
effective harassment of Union armies in northern Virginia. Although
hunted after the war and regarded, in fact, as the last Confederate
officer to surrender, he later became anathema to former
Confederates for his willingness to forget the past and his desire
to heal the nation's wounds. Appointed U.S. consul in Hong Kong, he
soon initiated an anticorruption campaign that ruined careers in
the Far East and Washington. Then, following a stint as a railroad
attorney in California, he surfaced again as a government
investigator sent by President Theodore Roosevelt to tear down
cattlemen's fences on public lands in the West. Ironically, he
ended his career as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.
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