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03113aam a2200325 i 4500 001 FE68635484BE11ECA1DCE93A4FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220203010027 007 ta 008 190810s2020 cauabco 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781611215304 020 $a 1611215307 035 $a (OCoLC)1111781719 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d AHH $d OCLCF $d XZU $d SILO 100 1 $a Smith, Timothy B., $d 1974- $e author. 245 14 $a The real horse soldiers : $b Benjamin Grierson's epic 1863 Civil War raid through Mississippi / $c Timothy B. Smith. 264 1 $a California : $b Savas Beatie, $c [2020] 300 $a 345 pages : $b illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Includes index (p. 332-343). 520 $a Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. The last serious study was published more than six decades ago. Since then other accounts have appeared, but none are deeply researched full-length studies of the raid and its more than substantial (and yet often overlooked) results. The publication of Timothy B. Smith's The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid through Mississippi rectifies this oversight. There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee. Grierson's operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. The daily rides were long, the rest stops short, and the tension high. 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, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson's Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. 648 7 $a 1861-1865 $2 fast 650 0 $a Grierson's Cavalry Raid, 1863. 650 7 $a Military operations, Cavalry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710242 651 0 $a United States $x Cavalry operations. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Cavalry operations. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20220203010725.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FE68635484BE11ECA1DCE93A4FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search