Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi

One of the most well-known operations of the Civil War is Benjamin Griersons Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi, which has been overlooked since a serious study was published more than six decades ago. Timothy B. Smiths The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Griersons Epic 1863 Civil War Raid through Mississippi, now available in paperback, rectifies this oversight. Griersons operation, conducted with three cavalry regiments and a battery of small artillery pieces, is the most famous and led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through Mississippi for 16 days.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2020
Publisher: Savas Beatie

One of the most well-known operations of the American Civil War is Benjamin Griersons Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi. The most recent serious study was released more than six decades ago. However, other accounts have emerged, but none are thoroughly researched, full-length studies of the raid and its more than substantial (and yet often overlooked) results. Timothy B. Smiths The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Griersons Epic 1863 Civil War Raid through Mississippi, now available in paperback, rectifies this oversight. There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by General U. S. Grants Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg in Louisiana. Griersons operation, however, conducted with three cavalry regiments and a battery of small artillery pieces, is the most famous. For 16 days (April 17 to May 2), Grieron led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering through the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. The daily rides were long, the rest stops short, and the danger as high as the tension. Ironically, the man who led the raid was a former music teacher who some say disliked horses. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks and supplies, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Novelists have attempted to capture the larger-than-life cavalry raid in the popular imagination, and Hollywood reproduced the daring cavalry action in The Horse Soldiers, a 1959 major motion picture starring John Wayne and William Holden. Readers of The Real Horse Soldiers who think they know all about this cavalry operation will be surprised by Smiths meticulous research and compelling storytelling.

Weight: 518g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781611215304