Grierson's Raid

The improbable Civil War raid that led to the Siege of Vicksburg, recounted by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . For two weeks in the spring of 1862, Colonel Benjamin Grierson and 1,700 Union cavalry troopers conducted a raid from Tennessee to Louisiana. It was intended to divert Confederate attention from Ulysses S. Grant’s army crossing the Mississippi River, a maneuver that would set the stage for the Siege of Vicksburg. Led by a former music teacher