General Jo Shelby's March

General Jo Shelby's March
- Reference Book
Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the postâ€“Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness and respect in his own reunited land.

General Jo Shelby had been a daring and ruthless cavalry commander, renowned and notorious for his slashing forays behind Union lines. After Appomattox, Shelby, declaring that he would never surrender, headed for Mexico. With three hundred men, some from his fighting â€œIron Brigadeâ€ regiment, others adventurers, fortune hunters, and deserters, the man Arthur refers to as â€œthe last holdout of the Confederacyâ€ made the treacherous twelve-hundred-mile trip.

In thrilling and vivid detail, General Jo Shelbyâ€™s March describes the dusty and dangerous trek through a lawless Texas swarming with desperadoes, into a Mexico teeming with JuÃ¡rezâ€™s rebels and marauding Apaches. After near fratricide among his fraying band of brothers, Shelby arrived to present a quixotic proposal to Emperor Maximilian: He and his fellow Americans would take over the Mexican army and, after being reinforced by forty thousand more Confederate soldiers, the government itself. Though a dramatic, doomed, and brave endeavor, Shelbyâ€™s actions changed both himself and American history forever.

Anthony Arthur then reveals the astonishing end of Shelbyâ€™s career: his return to America and his renouncing of slavery, his nomination by President Grover Cleveland to become U.S. marshal for western Missouri, his eventual fame as a model of nineteenth-century progressivism.

General Jo Shelbyâ€™s March is a riveting book about a uniquely American man, both brave and brutal, a hero and a hothead, whose lifeâ€™s startling last chapter is a microcosm of the aftermath of our most divisive war.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber RH9781400068302
ReleaseDate 2010-08-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400068302

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	RH9781400068302
ReleaseDate	2010-08-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400068302

General Jo Shelby's March

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