"This book is an operational and tactical study of cavalry operations in Northern Virginia from September 1862 to July 1863. It examines in detail John Mosby's first six months as a partisan, within the context of the larger threat to the Union capital posed by Jeb Stuart"--
This tactical study of fighting in June of 1863 is placed within the strategic context of the campaign, and is the result of thirty years of research at repositories across the country and research in unpublished records at the National Archives.