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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Daniel E. Sutherland
- Preface
- Part One: The Sign of the Centaur
- 2. Boyhood in Kentucky
- 3. Waverly: The Golden Years
- 4. The Border Wars
- 5. Steamboat Wedding
- 6. Missouri and the Union
- Part Two: The Campaign of the Missouri State Guards
- 8. Wilson’s Creek: The Face of War
- 9. A Star Added, A State Lost
- Part Three: Shelby the Raider
- 11. The Iron Brigade: First Newtonia
- 12. The Iron Brigade: Camp at Cross Hollows
- 13. The Iron Brigade: Cane Hill
- 14. The Iron Brigade: Prairie Grove
- 15. The Iron Brigade: Marmaduke and Shelby
- 16. Helena: Disaster in the West
- 17. Shelby’s Great Raid
- 18. The End of the War in the West
- Part Four: Mexico
- 20. From Texas to Mexico
- 21. Across the Sabinas
- 22. Jeanningros
- 23. Parras and Encarnación
- 24. Mexico City at Last
- 25. The Colonization Scheme
- 26. “The Mexican Times”
- Part Five: The Bluegrass and Missouri Again
- 28. “The Bloody Bonds”: The Gunn City Massacre
- 29. Coal Mining: Boom and Bust
- 30. Shelby in Reconstruction
- 31. The Trial of Frank James
- 32. A Friend Is Gone
- 33. The Great Pullman Strike
- 34. Missouri’s Farewell
- Notes
- Index
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