Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H Grierson and His Family

by Shirley A. Leckie and William H. Leckie

Book Overview

Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against Vicksburg. In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080613027X
• ISBN13: 9780806130279
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 9.1"