CONTENTS

  1. Preface
  2. Prologue
  3. Part I: The Jessie Scouts and Mosby’s Rangers
  4. Virginia and West Virginia, 1862–1863
  5. 1. The Jessie Scouts
  6. 2. Three Winters and the Rise of the Irregulars
  7. 3. “I Am Mosby”
  8. 4. Miskel Farm
  9. 5. The Grapewood Farm Engagement
  10. 6. Back in the Saddle
  11. 7. The Legion of Honor: Blazer’s Scouts
  12. 8. Deliverance: The Thurmonds
  13. 9. Lewis Powell
  14. 10. “Lurk like Wild Creatures in the Darkness”
  15. 11. The Salem Raid: “Life in One Hand and Seeming Dishonor in the Other”
  16. 12. Crimson Snow
  17. 1864
  18. 13. Riverboat Gamblers and General Crook
  19. 14. Kill Jefferson Davis and Burn Richmond: The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid
  20. Part II: The Confederate Secret Service
  21. 15. The Department of Dirty Tricks
  22. 16. Canada, the Confederate Secret Service, Election Interference, and the Northwest Conspiracy
  23. 17. U. S. Grant
  24. 18. The Scout toward Aldie
  25. 19. The Dublin Raid
  26. The Shenandoah Valley
  27. 20. Into the Valley: Staunton and Lexington
  28. 21. Shadow War Canada: Influencing the Democracy
  29. 22. “To Threaten Washington”
  30. 23. Mosby’s Calico Raid and Showdown at Mount Zion Church
  31. 24. “I Don’t Think Many People, North or South, Realize How Close Washington Came to Falling”
  32. 25. The High-Water Mark: Chambersburg Burns
  33. 26. Moorefield
  34. 27. An Embedded Combat Artist, General Sheridan, and Mosby’s Great Berryville Wagon Raid
  35. Part III: Sheridan’s Scouts and “Come Retribution”
  36. 28. “I Have 100 Men Who Will Take the Contract to Clean Out Mosby’s Gang”
  37. 29. The Most Important Election in American History
  38. 30. Takedown at Myer’s Ford
  39. 31. Sheridan’s Scouts: The Tide Turns
  40. 32. Ranger Lewis Powell
  41. 33. Early Strikes Back: Cedar Creek
  42. 34. The Greenback Raid
  43. 35. Artist and Retribution
  44. 36. Doppelgangers
  45. 37. John Wilkes Booth and Special Operations That “Would Make the World Shudder”
  46. 38. Blazer Strikes Again: Battle in the Vineyard
  47. 39. Shootout at Kabletown
  48. 40. The Road South and Rising from the Ashes
  49. 41. Henry Harrison Young: A Man Born for War
  50. 42. “The Devil Takes Care of His Own”
  51. 43. “A Changed Man”
  52. 1865
  53. 44. Young’s Scouts and the Journey
  54. 45. To Catch a Partisan Chief
  55. 46. Sheridan’s War
  56. 47. The Plot to Kidnap President Lincoln
  57. 48. Five Forks
  58. 49. The Road to Appomattox
  59. 50. Those Infernal Machines: Aimed at the White House
  60. 51. Powell’s Mission
  61. 52. The Last Call of Mosby’s Rangers
  62. 53. The Last Scout: Mexico
  63. Epilogue
  64. Dramatis Personae
  65. Acknowledgments
  66. Notes
  67. Index