General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel
- ISBN-10
- 0807848786
- ISBN-13
- 9780807848784
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 437
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-06-01
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Daniel O'Flaherty
Description
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, Shel
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