In my novel Brookhaven, the teenaged Sam McClure has three fateful encounters with John Haygood. The three happen in successive years, and each of the three involve Civil War military operations.
I was reminded of this when Emerging Civil War posted articles on two of the three operations a week apart this month.
The first encounter happens during Grierson’s Raid, an operation ordered by Ulysses S. Grant to distract the Confederates during his siege of Vicksburg in 1863. Some 1,700 Union cavalrymen rode through Mississippi, starting at the Tennessee border and finishing in Union-occupied Louisiana. They tore up railroad track and caused considerable havoc, but more importantly, they kept the Confederates focused away from Grant transferring his army across the river to besiege Vicksburg from the east.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Illustration: Major Benjamin Grierson and his cavalry make a triumphant entry into Union-controlled Baton Rouge at the conclusion of their famous raid through Mississippi in 1863. (Library of Congress)
Some Wednesday Readings
Why Governments Cannot Educate – Joseph Woodard at The Imaginative Conservative.
How Do You Fix Schools? Teachers Union Says Stop Trump, ICE, and Fascism – Maya Sulkin at The Free Press.
C.S. Lewis and Ray Bradbury: Legitimizing Science Fiction – Bradley Birzer,
Just War Thery and the American Civil War – Ed Lowe at Emerging Civil War.
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865 by Damian Shiels – review at Civil War Books and Authors.
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