Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders
New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1958. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 431, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ, is in a plastic sleeve, and is price-clipped. spine. Foreword by Bruce Catton. JONES, VIRGIL (PAT) CARRINGTON, 1906-1999 was a Journalist. Born– June 7, 1906, Charlottesville, Va. Education– Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1924-1926; Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1930. City editor, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, 1931-1937; reporter, Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va., 1937-1941; reporter, Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 1941-1945; staff writer, Washington, Wall Street Journal, 1943-1945; office manager, Curtis Publishing Co., Washington, 1945-1961; administrative assistant to Congressman William M. Tuck of Virginia, 1963-69; staff writer, NASA Activities, 1969-76. Member; National Press Club; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Delta Chi. District of Columbia Civil War Round Table gold medal for meritorious writing. Used the pseudonym, Pat Jones, for some writing. Died November 29, 1999. The exploits of the Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War were real and damaging, but the men themselves appeared only briefly on hilltops before disappearing into the mist. Jones's much-praised account of these courageous and unpredictable partisans has changed interpretations of the war's final stage. Derived from a Kirkus review: The South consistently triumphed in guerrilla warfare and, with organized partisan bands, swift and terrible as lightning, a growing havoc was inflicted upon Union pickets, stragglers, supply wagons, horses, rail and telegraph communications. The irregulars took as a great a toll psychologically through an attrition of mind and spirit which was incalculable -- the fear-haunted sleep of soldiers who might be killed silently in their tents, the nervous huddlings of men who dared not stray from their armed flock, the over-cautious and the defiantly reckless leaders whose grandest strategy was upset by wretched handfuls of daring and defiant raiders that no one could find, follow or fight. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Civil War, Confederacy, Guerrilla Warfare, Harry Gilmor, Turner Ashby, Hanse McNeill, John Mosby, Robert E. Lee, Elijah White, Baltimore and Ohio, Jubal Early, John McNeill, Partisans, Philip Sheridan
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