Blood image
Subtitle: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the southern mind
By: Paul Christopher Anderson.
Series: Conflicting worlds
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862 -- Public opinion.; Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862 -- Influence.; Ashby, Turner, 1828-1862 -- Military leadership.; Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography.; Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; Public opinion -- Southern States.; Public opinion -- Virginia.; Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Cavalry operations.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Cavalry operations.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "With Blood Image, his original biography of Confederate cavalry leader Turner Ashby, Paul Anderson demonstrates that the symbol of a man can be just as important as the man himself. Renowned as a born leader, graceful horseman, and violent partisan warrior, Turner Ashby was one of the most famous fighting men of the Civil War.

Rising to colonel of the 7th Virginia Cavalry, Ashby fought brilliantly under Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson during the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign until he died in battle near Harrisonburg, Virginia.".

"These bare facts of Ashby's wartime exploits scarcely convey the majesty and shaping force of the legend that grew around him while he lived and fought.

Anderson explores how and why Ashby's admirers in the Shenandoah Valley made him into their essential icon of "home." Anderson also demonstrates that Ashby's image - a catalytic, mesmerizing, and often contradictory combination of southern antebellum cultural ideals and wartime hopes and fears - emerged during his own lifetime and was not a later creation of the Lost Cause."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Riding a horse back home; title: A day of long knives; title: The savagery in romance; title: The nature of independence.