John Singleton Mosby, also known as the Gray Ghost, was a Confederate partisan leader whose Rangers and their irregular warfare tactics—blowing up bridges, attacking supply lines, and other strategic disruptions—proved such a thorn in the side of Northern forces during the Civil War that an entire special unit was devoted to finding and stopping him.
Mosby himself seemed to have a vampire-like ability to rise from the dead, being severely wounded a handful of times, but always staving off death and capture. One night in December of 1864, the Union army actually had him in their grasp and didn’t even know.
The full details of this remarkable story and unit are found in my new bestselling book, The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations. The book reveals…
