Posted on 04/17/2023 4:59:21 AM PDT by Kartographer
April also marks one of the most decisive mounted operations of the entire war, and certainly one of the most successful raids. Here I am talking about April 1863, when Union Brigadier General Benjamin H. Grierson with 1,700 Illinois and Iowa cavalrymen rode the almost the full length of the state of Mississippi from north to south, departing LaGrange Tennessee on April 17, and riding into Baton Rouge on May 2.
(Excerpt) Read more at emergingcivilwar.com ...
In truth the raid was 16 days and 600 miles of leg numbing horse riding hell with little food and less sleep. ring that in the end destroy railroad track and rolling stock, bridges, telegraph lines and military depol and supplies and cutting off the rail road supply of line to Vicksburg and helped lead to its capture. Arguably one of the most successful cavalry actions of the civil war. Not bad for a music teacher.
It is amazing that the Democrat Party and our media want history ignored and hidden.
Rifles used on the raid:
Cosmopolitan and Gwyn & Campbell Carbines in the Civil War - Thomas Rentschler
https://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolitan-Gwyn-Campbell-Carbines-Civil/dp/0917218930
The raid:
https://www.nchgs.org/html/griersons_raid.html
thanks for that...amazing read
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