Brown Dee - Dee Brown on the Civil War

Dee Brown on the Civil War

Griersons Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees

Dee Brown

CONTENTS

First dayFriday, April 17
A SOUTH BREEZE WAS BLOWING

Second daySaturday, April 18
THE SKIRMISHES BEGIN

Third daySunday, April 19
BARTEAU IN PURSUIT

Fourth dayMonday, April 20
GRIERSONS GAMBIT

Fifth dayTuesday, April 21
THE BUTTERNUT GUERILLAS

Sixth dayWednesday, April 22
A MISSION FOR CAPTAIN FORBES

Seventh dayThursday, April 28
THE SCOUTS CAPTURE A BRIDGE

Eighth dayFriday, April 24
ACTION AT NEWTON STATION

Ninth daySaturday, April 25
PINEY WOODS COUNTRY

Tenth daySunday, April 26
CAPTAIN FORBES PRESENTS HIS COMPLIMENTS

Eleventh dayMonday, April 27
ACROSS THE PEARL TO HAZLEHURST

Twelfth dayTuesday, April 28
COLONEL ADAMS SETS AN AMBUSH

Thirteenth dayWednesday, April 29
FOX AND HOUNDS

Fourteenth dayThursday, April 30
THE TRAP BEGINS TO CLOSE

Fifteenth dayFriday, May 1
THE FIGHT AT WALLS BRIDGE

Sixteenth daySaturday, May 2
THE LAST LONG MARCH

Seventeenth daySunday, May 3
HEROES TO THE UNION

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Griersons Raid copyright 1954 by the University of Illinois

The Bold Cavaliers copyright 1959 by Dee Alexander Brown

The Galvanized Yankees copyright 1963 by Dee Brown

Cover design by Itzy Ramirez

ISBN: 978-1-5040-4959-7

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THIS ACCOUNT IS BASED upon five major sources: Benjamin Henry Griersons manuscript autobiography and the Grierson Papers in the Illinois State Historical Library; his privately published Record of Services Rendered the Government; the Forbes family letters and journals of Stephen Alfred Forbes; Richard W. Surbys Grierson Raids; and the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.

Griersons lengthy autobiography apparently was in process of revision at the time of his death in 1911. Many sentences and paragraphs in the original manuscript were marked out and extended passages were penciled on the margins. Grierson devoted considerable space to the raid which made him famous, and although he relied heavily upon his official report for these chapters, he also included new material.

In addition he drew from his Record of Services Rendered the Government, a unique document with a fascinating history of its own. While Grierson was stationed at the Old Arsenal in St. Louis, some years after the Civil War, a close friend of Mrs. Grierson visited with them one summer and became interested in the generals adventurous background. The friend was Mrs. Ella L. Wolcott of Elmira, New York, and, using Griersons private and official papers, she compiled a detailed chronological record of his military career. Subsequently, during a long tour of duty at Fort Concho, Texas, Grierson arranged to have this record printed on an army hand-press, which was in use only occasionally for publishing local orders. The type was hand set, and evidently no attempt was made to correct typographical errors. Distribution of the few copies printed was limited to the Grierson family, and it is undoubtedly one of the rarest items of Americana, the only library copies on record being in the Illinois State Historical Library.