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The following 16 days Grierson lead what is arguably the most effective and successful cavalry raid of the Civil War.

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

1 posted on 04/17/2015 8:49:02 AM PDT by Kartographer
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2 posted on 04/17/2015 8:51:21 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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The Horse Soldiers with John Wayne and William Holden was a movie based off this campaign. Still, one of my favorites.


3 posted on 04/17/2015 8:52:24 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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A sense of chivalry not lost on at least a few of the Yankee invaders.


9 posted on 04/17/2015 9:29:07 AM PDT by onedoug
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What? JEB Stuart wasn’t the only effective cavalry commander in the war? Imagine that.


11 posted on 04/17/2015 9:33:17 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( Marbury vs.Madison was the biggest power grab in American history.)
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Civil War infantry, on both sides, had a saying “who ever saw a dead cavalryman”


16 posted on 04/18/2015 5:53:07 AM PDT by X Fretensis
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