600 miles from Lagrange TN. to Baton Rouge LA. while destroying 50 miles of track and a good number of un-replaceable rolling stock at minimal losses.
There are a number of cavalry officers of both sides more famous and yet almost none lead a more efficient and successful action than the music teacher who hated horses General Benjamin Grierson
The Horse Soldiers with John Wayne and William Holden was a movie based off this campaign. Still, one of my favorites.
A sense of chivalry not lost on at least a few of the Yankee invaders.
What? JEB Stuart wasn’t the only effective cavalry commander in the war? Imagine that.
Civil War infantry, on both sides, had a saying “who ever saw a dead cavalryman”