Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia. from the Mss. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest.

The narrator, writing as a staff officer serving in Virginia, delivers episodic memoirs of cavalry campaigns, blending battlefield vignettes, scouting adventures, and camp life. Central episodes follow a gaunt, enigmatic cavalry colonel whose daring exploits intersect with a renowned cavalry commander and with actions around a great battle. Detailed scenes depict reconnaissance rides, charges, and the strain of winter quarters, while vivid set-pieces include a dramatic encounter in a storm-lashed wood and a climactic cavalry engagement. Interwoven are behind-the-scenes chapters about press, politics, and finances, and a later sequence treating a violent death and its chain of evidence, closing with reflections on loss and the decline of cavalry tradition.