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Many only know of this raid from watching the John Ford/John Wayne 1959 movie 'Horse Soldiers' loosely based on Grierson action.

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.

1 posted on 04/17/2023 4:59:21 AM PDT by Kartographer

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To: Kartographer

It is amazing that the Democrat Party and our media want history ignored and hidden.

2 posted on 04/17/2023 6:54:36 AM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)

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To: Kartographer

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