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Roughshod Through Dixie
Mark Lardas
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Grierson’s Raid 1863
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012-01-20
主題History / Military / United StatesHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN18460399409781846039942
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JVa1CwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.