A Just and Righteous Cause : Benjamin H. Grierson's Civil War Memoir.
Title:
A Just and Righteous Cause : Benjamin H. Grierson's Civil War Memoir.
Author:
Dinges, Bruce J.
ISBN:
9780809387090
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (478 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- Preface -- 1. An American Boyhood -- 2. Rallying around the Flag -- 3. Colonel of the 6th Illinois Cavalry -- 4. Scouting after Guerillas in West Tennessee -- 5. From Iuka to Holly Springs -- 6. Grierson's Raid -- Gallery -- 7. The Siege of Port Hudson -- 8. Reorganizing the Cavalry in West Tennessee -- 9. The Meridian Expedition -- 10. Operations against Forrest -- 11. Brice's Cross Roads -- 12. A. J. Smith's Operations in Mississippi -- 13. Reorganization and Controversy -- 14. Raid on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad -- 15. A Visit to Washington -- 16. Final Operations -- 17. Reconstruction Duty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Author Bios -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Bruce J. Dinges is director of publications for the Arizona Historical Society and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Arizona History. A professor emerita at the University of Central Florida, Shirley A. Leckie is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family, The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson, and the forthcoming Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-visioning the American West.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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