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Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1962. 261 pages. Illustrated. Ex-library. Spine cocked; soiling, wear on covers and corners.. Soft Cover. Fair. Civil War.
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Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1981. CV6 - A hardcover book in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and small tears on the edges, corners, some chipping and crease on the sides, old price label adhered on the back, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. A Cavalry Adventure of the Civil War. 9.5"x6.5", 261 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Grierson's Raid was a Union cavalry raid during the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. It ran from April 17 to May 2, 1863, as a diversion from Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's main attack plan on Vicksburg, Mississippi. Early in 1863, Major General Charles Hamilton, the commander of the Corinth section of Grant's division, suggested what would eventually become Grierson's Raid. Subsequently, due to Hamilton's insistence on procuring a command that would garner him more glory, Hamilton offered his resignation. Grant quickly accepted. Up until this time in the war, Confederate cavalry commanders such as Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Hunt Morgan, and J.E.B. Stuart had ridden circles around the Union (literally, in Stuart's case; see the Peninsula Campaign), and it was time to out-do the Confederates in cavalry expeditions. The task fell to Col. Benjamin Grierson, a former music teacher who, oddly, hated horses after being kicked in the head by one as a child. Grierson's cavalry brigade consisted of the 6th and 7th Illinois and 2nd Iowa Cavalry regiments. Grierson and his 1,700 horse troopers, some in Confederate uniforms serving as scouts for the main force, rode over six hundred miles through hostile territory (from southern Tennessee, through the state of Mississippi and into Union-held Baton Rouge, Louisiana), over routes no Union soldier had traveled before. They tore up railroads and burned crossties, freed slaves, burned Confederate storehouses, destroyed locomotives and commissary stores, ripped up bridges and trestles, burned buildings, and inflicted ten times the casualties they received, all while detachments of his troops made feints confusing the Confederates as to his actual whereabouts, intent and direction. Total casualties for Grierson's Brigade during the raid were three killed, seven wounded, and nine missing. Five sick and wounded men were left behind along the route, too ill to continue. Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, commander of the Vicksburg garrison, had few cavalry and could do nothing to stop Grierson. The premier Confederate cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, was off chasing another Union raider, Col. Abel Streight, in Alabama and thus had no opportunity to stop Grierson. While Streight's Raid failed, it did distract Forrest and this probably allowed the success of Grierson's Raid. Although many Confederate cavalry units pursued Grierson vigorously across the state (most notably those led by Wirt Adams and Robert V. Richardson), they were unsuccessful in stopping the raid. Grierson and his exhausted troopers ultimately rode into Union-occupied Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With an entire division of Pemberton's soldiers tied up defending the vital Vicksburg-Jackson railroad from the evasive Grierson, combined with Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's feint northeast of Vicksburg (the Battle of Snyder's Bluff), the beleaguered Confederates were unable to muster the forces necessary to oppose Grant's eventual landing below Vicksburg on the east side of the Mississippi at Bruinsburg.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Keywords AMERICAN HISTORY CIVIL WAR ARMY COLONEL BENJAMIN GRIERSON
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University of Illinois, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good or better in like dustjacket.
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University of Illinois Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 261 pages including some illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1954 as the published date. This is definitely Not a former library book. The dust jacket shows general edgewear (No Chips). I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!
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Urbana: U. Of Illinois, 1954. Blue decorated cloth, no d.j., 261 pp., annotated endpaper maps, illus., photos, index. Day-by-day account of the 6th & 7th Illinois Cavalry in their 600 mile ride through Mississippi to Baton Rouge in April 1863 during the Vicksburg Campaign.. 1st.. Cloth. Fine/Mylar.
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Morningside Bookshop. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint. Hard cover published by Morningside Bookshop in 1981. Red covers with gilt lettering on spine. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has slight edge wear and is in very good condition. Large 8vo, 261 pages, 1.3 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 261 pages .
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Morningside Bookshop, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Large Octavo. Facsimile 58. Facesimile of the 1954 University of Illinois edition. 261pp + ads. Dust jacket is edge worn but presentable within new Brodart sleeve. Silas Felton's blindstamp on ffep, otherwise unmarked..
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GRIERSON'S RAID : A CAVALRY ADVENTURE OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Illini Books / University of Illinois Press. Good. 1962. Paperback. Paperback; blemish to edge of pages, corner tips of a few pages creased, otherwise good in creased card covers. ; Benjamin Henry Grierson's raid - part of the complicated military maneuverings that won Vicksburg for the Union. Illustrated. ; 261 pages .
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GRIERSON'S RAID : A CAVALRY ADVENTURE OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Morningside Bookshop. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Facsimile 58. Hardback; light foxing to boards, otherwise very good in creased, and heavily faded dustjacket. ; Benjamin Henry Grierson's raid - part of the complicated military maneuverings that won Vicksburg for the Union. Illustrated. Reprint of the 1954 edition; with list of books published by Morningside. ; 261 pages .
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university of illinois press, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Rubbing to cloth. Previous owner inscription. No jacket. .
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