19th nineteenth century
A01=Mark Lardas
A12=Donato Spedaliere
A12=Johnny Shumate
A12=Mariusz Kozik
Analysis
assessment
Author_Donato Spedaliere
Author_Johnny Shumate
Author_Mariusz Kozik
Author_Mark Lardas
background
battle
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JWLF
Category=NHK
Category=NHWF
Category=NHWR3
Category=NL-HB
Category=NL-JW
Civil War
conflict
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
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Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=248
illustrated
IMPN=Osprey Publishing
initial strategy
ISBN13=9781846039935
Language_English
NWS=No. 12
operations
PA=Available
PD=20100707
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
small unit
SN=Raid
strategy
Subject=History
Subject=Warfare & Defence
tactic
United Union Confederate States US
WMM=184
Product details
- ISBN 9781846039935
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 180 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid.
Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and fighting numerous small actions, before breaking back through the lines at Baton Rouge. The raid was a tremendous success, not only by virtue of the destruction it caused, but also because the Confederates were forced to divert thousands of troops away from the front lines during General Grant's critical Vicksburg offensive.
This book tells the complete story of one of the most daring Union raids of the war.
Mark Lardas holds a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but spent his early career at the Johnson Space Center doing Space Shuttle structural analysis, and space navigation. An amateur historian and a long-time ship modeller, Mark has written extensively about modelling as well as naval, maritime, and military history.
