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Wilson's Raid : the final blow to the Confederacy /

Title

Wilson's Raid : the final blow to the Confederacy / Russell W. Blount Jr.

Author

Blount, Russell W.,

Publication

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2018.
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172 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

In the closing months of the Civil War, General James Wilson led a Union cavalry raid through Alabama and parts of Georgia. Wilson, the young, brash boy general of the Union, matched wits against Nathan Bedford Forrest, the South's legendary wizard of the saddle. Wilson's Raiders swept through cities like Selma, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, destroying the last remaining industrial production centers of the Confederacy along with any hopes of its survival. Forrest and his desperately outnumbered cavalry had no option but to try to stop the Union's advance. Join Russell Blount as he examines the eyewitness accounts and diaries chronicling this defining moment in America's bloodiest war.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Boots and saddles -- "First with the most" -- An inhospitable land -- The lost brigade -- The road to Selma -- The Queen City -- The horrors of war -- An army of occupation -- Cradle of the Confederacy -- "By jingo, I'll do it" -- Return of the lost brigade -- "God's will be done."

ISBN

9781467139038
1467139033

LCCN

2017958379

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library