A Bibliography of John Singleton Mosby
and
Additional Resources for Mosby's Confederacy,
and Related Subjects
Ashdown, Paul and Caudill, Edward,
The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002.
Baird, Nancy Chappelear, Journals of Amanda Virginia Edmonds: Lass of the Mosby Confederacy, 1857 -
1867. Stephens City, Virginia: Commercial Press, 1984.
Beller, Susan Provost, Mosby and his Rangers: Adventures of the Gray
Ghost. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 1992. (Considered a primer for young readers.)
Black, Robert W. (Colonel, US Army, Ret.), Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard: Mosby, Morgan and Forest in the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books (Stackpole Military History Series), 2008.
Brown, Peter A., Mosby's Fighting Parson: The Life and Times of Sam
Chapman. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2001.
_______, Take Sides with the Truth: The Postwar Letters of John Singleton Mosby to Samuel F. Chapman. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Bryan, Charles F., Jr. and Lankford, Nelson D., eds., Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey, Written and Illustrated by Private Robert Knox
Sneden. New York: The Free Press, 2000.
Bryan, John Stewart, Joseph Bryan: His Times, His Family, His
Friends. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1935
(Second Printing May 1938).
Cary, Carolyn, William Thomas Overby: Proud Partisan Ranger.
Fayetteville, Georgia: C. J. Cary & Associates, Inc., 2003.
Cisco, Walter Brian, War Crimes Against Southern Civilians. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company.
Cooke, John Esten, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War. New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1867, 601 pages. Reprinted by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana.
Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, Jubal Early's Raid on Washington, 1864. Baltimore, Maryland: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1989.
Crawford, J. Marshall, Mosby and His Men. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1867. Also reprinted by Olde Soldier Books, Gaithersburg, Md.
Daniels, Jonathan, Mosby: Gray Ghost of the Confederacy. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959. (This is a children's book.)
Dannett, Sylvia G. L. and Burkart, Rosamond H., Confederate Surgeon Aristides
Monteiro. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969.
Evans, Thomas J. and Moyer, James M., Mosby's Confederacy: A Guide to the Roads and Sites of Colonel John Singleton
Mosby. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Publishing Company, 1991.
Evans and Moyer, Mosby Vignettes, Vol. I - V. Privately printed. (Tom Evans 703-281-3440 has details)
Guild, June Purcell, LL.M., Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes From Earliest Times to the Present. Originally published in 1936 by Whittet & Shepperson. Fourth Printing: Lovettsville, Va.: Willow Bend Books, 1996.
Hakenson, Donald C. and Dudding, Gregg, Mosby Vignettes, Volumes VI and
VII. Privately printed: Vol. VI, 1st Printing, Feb. 2002, 109 pages; Vol. VII, 1st Printing, Sept. 2003.
Hale, Laura Virginia, Memories in Marble: The Story of Front Royal's Four Confederate Monuments. Front Royal, Virginia: Warren Press, 1956.
__________, Four Valiant Years in the Lower Shenandoah Valley, 1861 - 1865. Front Royal, Virginia: Hathaway Publishing, 1986.
Heatwole, John L., The Burning: Sheridan's Devastation of the
Shenandoah Valley. Charlottesville, Virginia: Rockbridge
Publishing, 1998.
Hunter, Alexander, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank. New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905.
_______, The Women of the Debatable Land. Washington, DC: Corden Publishing Co., 1912.
Jones, Virgil Carrington, Ranger Mosby. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
_______, Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1956.
Keen, Hugh C. and Mewborn, Horace, 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Mosby's Command: The Virginia Regimental Histories
Series. 1st edition. Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1993.
Massey, Mary Elizabeth, Refugee Life in the Confederacy. Baton Rouge, Lousiana.: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.
Mewborn, Horace (ed.), "From Mosby's Comand":
Newspaper Letters & Articles by and about John S. Mosby and
His Rangers. Baltimore: Butternut & Blue,
2005.
Mitchell, Adele H., ed., The Letters of John S. Mosby. Printed by the Stuart-Mosby Historical Society, 1986, 319 pages.
Mosby, John S., Mosby's War Reminiscences and Stuart's Calvary
Campaign. Boston: Geo. A. Jones & Co., Publishers, 1887.
_____________, Mosby's War Reniniscences and Stuart's Cavalry Campaign. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, Second Edition, 1898. Reprinted 1958 by Pageant Book Company, New York.
_________, Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908.
___________, The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1917.
Monteiro, Aristides, M.D., War Reminiscences by the Surgeon of Mosby's
Command. Richmond, Virginia: 1890. Reprinted by Butternut Press, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1983.
Munson, John W., Reminiscences of a Mosby Guerrilla. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1906. Reprinted by Olde Soldier Books, Gaithersburg, Md.
Newman, Harry Wright, Maryland and the Confederacy: An Objective Narrative of Maryland's Participation in the War Between the States 1861 - 1865, with Annotations of Important Personalities and Vital Events of the War. Annapolis, Maryland: Published by the Author, 1976.
Phillips, Edward H. and Phillips, Loving H. (ed.), The Lower Shenandoah Valley in the Civil War: The Impact of War Upon the Civilian Population and Upon Civil Institutions. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc. 1993 (part of the Virginia Civil War Battles and Leaders Series).
Ramage, James A., Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton
Mosby. Lexington, Kentucky: The University of Kentucky Press, 1999.
Ramey, Emily G. and Gott, John K., eds., The Years of Anguish: Fauquier County (Va.), 1861 -
65. Warrenton, Virginia: The Fauquier Democrat, 1965.
Scott, Major John, Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1867. Also reprinted by Olde Soldier Books, Gaithersburg, Md.
Siepel, Kevin H., Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton
Mosby. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Thomas, Emory M., Bold Dragoon:
The Life of J. E. B. Stuart. New York, etc.: Harper & Row,
Publishers, 1986.
Vogtsberger, Margaret Ann, The Dulaneys of Welbourne: A Family in Mosby's
Confederacy. Berryville, Virginia: Rockbridge Publishing Company, 1995.
Warman, Joanne Browning, ed., The Memorial Wall to Name the Fallen: Warrenton, Virginia
Cemetery. Warrenton, Virginia: The Fauquier Times-Democrat, 1998.
Welton, J. Michael, ed., My Heart is So Rebellious: The Caldwell Letters, 1861 -
1865. Warrenton, Va.: The Fauquier National Bank.
Wert, Jeffry D., Mosby's Rangers: From the High Tide of the Confederacy to the Last Days at Appomattox, the Story of the Most Famous Command of the Civil War and Its Legendary Leader, John S. Mosby. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990s.
Williamson, James J., Mosby's Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, from its Organization to the Surrender. New York: Ralph B. Kenyon, Publisher, 1896. Reprinted by Time-Life Books, Collector's Library of the Civil War, 1982.
__________, Prison Life in the Old Capital and Reminiscences of the Civil
War. West Orange, New Jersey: 1911.
Wittenberg, Eric J. and Petruzzi, J. David, Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg. New York: Savas Beatie, LLC, 2006.
Regimental Histories, Memoirs and Other First-Hand
Accounts of Those Who Faced John S. Mosby and Mosby's Rangers
Beach, William H., The First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry: April 19, 1861 to July 7,
1865. New York: The Lincoln Cavalry Association, 1902. Reprinted 1988 by Bacon Race Books, Annandale, Va.
Bonnell, John C., Jr., Sabres in the Shenandoah: The 21st New York Cavalry,
1863-1866. Shippensburg, Pa.: Burd Street Press, 1996.
Boudrye, Rev. Louis N., Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry, First Ira Harris Guard: Its Organization, Marches, Raids, Scouts, Engagements and General Services During the Rebellion of
1861-65. Albany, New York: S. R. Gray, 1865.
Boudrye, Richard E. (ed.), War Journal of Louis N. Boudrye, Fifth New York Cavalry: The Diary of a Union Chaplain, Commencing February 16,
1863. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1996.
Bundy, Carol, The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of
Charles Russell Lowell, Jr.,
1835-64. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG), 2005.
Crowninshield, Benjamin W., Major, First Massachusetts Cavalry
and Brevet Colonel, USV, A History of the First Regiment of
Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers, with Roster and Statistics by
D. H. L. Gleason, Brevet Major. Boston and New York:
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Reprinted by
Butternut & Blue, Baltimore, Md., 1995, as the tenth volume of
the Army of the Potomac Series.
Denison, Rev. Frederic, chaplain, Sabres and Spurs: The First
Rhode Island Cavalry in the Civil War, 1861-1865. The First
Rhode Island Cavalry Veteran Association, 1876.
Reprinted 1994, Butternut & Blue, Baltimore, Md., as the third
volume of the Army of the Potomac Series.
Glazier, Captain Willard, Battles for the Union. Hartford,
Connecticut: Gilman & Company, 1874 (this work is the 1878
edition).
__________, Sword and Pen. Philadelphia: P.
W. Ziegler & Company, 1880 (this work is the 1882 edition).
__________, Three Years in the Federal Cavalry. New York: R. H. Ferguson & Co., 1874 (Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA).
Goodhart, Briscoe, Loudoun Rangers: History of the
Independent Loudoun Rangers, U. S. Vol. Cav. (Scouts),
1862-65. Washington, DC: Press of McGill & Wallace, 1896. (Reprinted by Olde Soldier Books, Inc., Gaithersburg,
Maryland, ISBN 0-942211-76-6)
Grimsley, Mark, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861 - 1865. New York and Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hard, Abner, M.D., History of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment Illinois Volunteers During the Great
Rebellion. (Originally published 1868) Reprint: Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1984.
Hoffman, Elliott W. (ed.), A Vermont Cavalryman in War & Love: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Major General William Wells and Anna Richardson. Lynchburg, Virginia: Schroeder Publications, 2007.
Humphreys, Charles A., Field, Camp, Hospital and Prison in the Civil War,
1863-1865. Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1918 (Humphreys was a chaplain with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry).
Ide, Horace K., History of the First Vermont Cavalry Volunteers in the War of the Great Rebellion (Reprint). Baltimore, Md.: Butternut & Blue, 2000.
Isham, Asa B., Seventh Michigan Cavalry of Custer's Wolverine Brigade. Reprint of original 1893 edition.. Huntington, West Virginia: Blue Acorn Press, 2000.
Kester, Donald E., Cavalryman in Blue: Colonel John Wood Kester of the First New Jersey Cavalry in the Civil War. Hightstown, New Jersey: Longstreet House (New Book No. 135), 1997.
Longacre, Edward G., Custer and His Wolverines: The Michigan Cavalry Brigade
1861 - 1865. Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Publishing, 1997.
__________, Jersey Cavaliers: A History of the First New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry,
1861 - 1865. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, New Book No. 114, 1992.
McLean, R. James, California Sabers: The 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil
War. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Moyer, Henry P., History of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania
Volunteer Cavalry, War to Suppress the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865.
Lebanon, Pa., 1911. Reprint: Higginson Book Company,
Salem, Mass., 1998.
Ovies, Adolfo, Crossed Sabers: General George Armstrong
Custer and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Bloomington,
Indiana: Author House, 2004.
Parson, Thomas E., Bear Flag and Bay State in the Civil War: The Californians of the Second Massachusetts
Cavalry. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2001.
Penfield, Capt. James, The 1863-1864 Civil War Diary of Captain James Penfield, 5th New York Volunteer Cavalry, Company
H. Ticonderoga, New York: Press of America, 1999.
Reed, Thomas J., Tibbit's Boys: A History of the 21st New York
Cavalry. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, Inc., 1997.
Rodenbough, Theo. F., et al (eds.), History of the Eighteenth Regiment of Cavalry, Pennsylvania Volunteers (163d Regiment of the Line), 1862 - 1865. New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1909 (Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing as a modern paperback).
Rogers, Larry and Rogers, Keith, Their Horses Climbed Trees: A Chronicle of the California 100 and Battalion in the Civil War, from San Francisco to
Appomattox. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Military History, 2001 (Considered a regimental history of this unit, mustered into Federal service with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry).
Sheridan, Philip H., Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1888, two volumes.
Slade, A. D., A. T. A. Torbert: Southern Gentleman in Union
Blue. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, Inc., 1992.
Stackpole, Edward J., Sheridan in the Shenandoah: Jubal Early's Nemesis (Second Edition). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1992.
Stephenson, Darl L., Headquarters in the Brush: Blazer's Independent Union
Scouts. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2001.
Tobie, Edward P., History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861 -
1865. Boston: Press of Emery & Hughes, 1887.
Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, Massachuetts, 1998.
The Western Reserve Historical Society, The James E. Taylor Sketchbook: With Sheridan Up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864: Leaves from a Special Artist's Sketch Book an Diary. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, Inc., 1989.
Additional Resourses of General Interest
Baker, Norman L., Valley of the Crooked Run: The History of a Frontier
Road. Delaplane, Virginia: Summerset Printing, 2002 (First Edition).
Fairfax County (Va.) Civil War Centennial Commission, Fairfax County and the War Between the States, 1961. Reprinted by the Fairfax County Park Authority, 1998.
Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee, Fauquier County, Virginia: 1759 -
1959. Warrenton, Virginia: Virginia Publishing, Inc., 1959.
Faust, Drew Gilpin, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Hakenson, Donald C., This Forgotten Land: A Tour of Civil War Sites and Other Historical Landmarks South of Alexandria,
Virginia. Privately printed, 2002 (ISBN: 0-914927-38-8).
Jones, Wilmer L., Ph.D., After the Thunder: Fourteen Men Who Shaped Post-Civil War
America. Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 2000.
_______, Behind Enemy Lines: Civil War Spies, Raiders and Guerrillas. Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 2001.
Krick, Robert K., Civil War Weather in Virginia. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 2007.
Longacre, Edward G., The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations During the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 July
1863. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.
The Loudoun County (Va.) Civil War Centennial Commission and the Loudoun County (Va.) Board of Supervisors, Loudoun County and the Civil War. Leesburg, Virginia: Potomac Press of Leesburg, 1961.
Mackey, Robert F., The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South,
1861 - 1865 (Volume 5 in the Campaigns and Commanders series). Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
Mauro, Charles V., The Civil War in Fairfax County: Civilians and Soldiers. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2006.
Melville, Herman, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. 1866. Reprinted as Battle Pieces: Civil War Poems of Herman Melville. Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2000.
Meserve, Stevan F., The Civil War in Loudoun County, Virginia: A History of Hard Times. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2008.
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Civil War in Loudoun Valley: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg and Uppperville, June 1863, Paul Ziluka, Chairman, 2004.
O'Neill, Robert F., Jr., The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg and Upperville, June 10-27, 1863. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1993.
Schantz, Mark S., Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008.
Scheel, Eugene M., The Civil War in Fauquier. Warrenton, Virginia: The Fauquier National Bank, 1985.
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