Vintage CDV Colonel Benjamin Grierson Army Officer American Civil War
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Reference Number: Avaluer:19451788 | Modified Item: No |
Photo Type: CDV | Listed By: Dealer or Reseller |
Original/Reprint: Original Print | Date of Creation: 1860-1869 |
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Benjamin Henry Grierson (July 8, 1826 – August 31, 1911) was a music teacher, then a career officer in the United States Army. He was a cavalry general in the volunteer Union Army during the Civil War and later led troops in the American Old West. He is most noted for Grierson's Raid, an 1863 expedition through Confederate-held territory that severed enemy communicat...ion lines between Vicksburg, Mississippi and Confederate commanders in the Eastern Theater. After the war he organized and led the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry Regiment from 1866 to 1890.