Wilson's Raid

Wilson's Raid

The Final Blow to the Confederacy

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Publication Date: 26th February 2018

Relive the final days of the Civil War with this compelling account of Wilson's Raid told by memoirs of those who witnessed it.

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 ... Read More

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Relive the final days of the Civil War with this compelling account of Wilson's Raid told by memoirs of those who witnessed it.

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 ... Read More

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Relive the final days of the Civil War with this compelling account of Wilson's Raid told by memoirs of those who witnessed it.

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.

Details
  • Pages: 176
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Civil War Series
  • Publication Date: 26th February 2018
  • State: Alabama
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781467139038
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Special Interest / Military
    HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Reviews

"Blount is a master of the telling anecdote. He finds actual comments from diaries, post war memoirs, contemporary newspapers, even private letters to make his take appear alive, as if being told by those who were there. To that end, he tells the story in present tense, the better to engage the reader in the currency of his account. And such a story he tells. From private accounts we discover the shock of Union cavalrymen at the utter poverty of north Alabama. They wonder that the rude settlements could exist. Battle, however, is quickly offered. Not only are the conflict movements well expressed, we find the characters of the soldiers described, making such movements understandable. Why would Forrest send some men on leave when the enemy was near? How could Wilson lose an entire Union brigade for days? What happened at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa? Why were southern cities burned? Blount gives us the background to great events, remembered even today." Decatur Daily

Relive the final days of the Civil War with this compelling account of Wilson's Raid told by memoirs of those who witnessed it.

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.

  • Pages: 176
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Civil War Series
  • Publication Date: 26th February 2018
  • State: Alabama
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9781467139038
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Special Interest / Military
    HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

"Blount is a master of the telling anecdote. He finds actual comments from diaries, post war memoirs, contemporary newspapers, even private letters to make his take appear alive, as if being told by those who were there. To that end, he tells the story in present tense, the better to engage the reader in the currency of his account. And such a story he tells. From private accounts we discover the shock of Union cavalrymen at the utter poverty of north Alabama. They wonder that the rude settlements could exist. Battle, however, is quickly offered. Not only are the conflict movements well expressed, we find the characters of the soldiers described, making such movements understandable. Why would Forrest send some men on leave when the enemy was near? How could Wilson lose an entire Union brigade for days? What happened at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa? Why were southern cities burned? Blount gives us the background to great events, remembered even today." Decatur Daily