Grant's Cavalryman The Life and Times of General James H. Wilson by Longacre, Edward G - 1996

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. 0811707121 . First Edition/First Printing with full numberline including the 1 - of this title. Please note that this text was originally published by this same publisher under a different title in 1972. An exhaustively researched biography of General James H. Wilson. At the beginning of the war, the Confederate cavalry routinely outclassed the Union's. Wilson changed that. He was a first class organizer and administrator, but also led in the field. He commanded under Sheridan in the Shenandoah in 1864. In the final months of the war, Wilson led the largest and most devastating cavalry raid of the war, defeating the legendary Nathan Bedford Forrest. No previous owner marks. Text and photographs clean and bright. Dust jacket is clean and bright with no fading and minimal wear. Dust jacket now protected in Mylar. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages .