A just and righteous cause : Benjamin H. Grierson's Civil War memoir / edited by Bruce J. Dinges and Shirley A. Leckie.
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Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2008], ©2008.
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Physical Description: | xi, 449 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
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Contents:
- An American boyhood
- Rallying around the flag
- Colonel of the 6th Illinois cavalry
- Scouting after guerillas in West Tennessee
- From Iuka to Holy Springs
- Grierson's raid
- The siege of Port Hudson
- Reorganizing the calvary in West Tennessee
- The Meridian expedition
- Operations against Forrest
- Brice's Cross Roads
- A.J. Smith's operations in Mississippi
- Reorganization and controversy
- Raid on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
- A visit to Washington
- Final operations
- Reconstruction duty
- Conclusion.