Yankee Blitzkrieg (eBook)

Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia

James Pickett Jones (Autor)

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2021
272 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8332-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Yankee Blitzkrieg is the first comprehensive survey of Wilson's Raid, the largest independent mounted expedition of the Civil War. The Confederacy was reeling when Wilson's raiders left their camps along the Tennessee River in March 1865 and rode south. But there was talk of prolonged rebel resistance in the deep South using the agricultural and industrial facilties of a sweep of territory that ran from Macon to Meridian. That area had hardly been touched by the war, and in Columbus, Georgia, and Selma, Alabama, the South had two of its most productive industrial communities. Twenty-seven year-old General Wilson was certain his large, well-officered, well-trained, and well-armed cavalry corps could deny the Confederates a redoubt in the heart of Alabama and Georgia. Wilson, like many cavalry leaders, north and South, believed the mounted arm had been grievously misused through four years of war. But in March 1865, armed with support from Grant, Sherman, and Thomas, Wilson at last could test the theory that massed heavily armed cavalry could strike swiftly in great strenghth and press to quick victory. . . . Wilson's strategy was to get there "e;first with the most men,"e; and it would be tested against the man who had invented the very phrase, Nathan Bedford Forrest. from the book

Autor

James Pickett Jones is professor of history at Florida State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: photos, maps
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: battle of columbus civil war • battle of selma civil war • civil war 1865 battles • flight of jefferson davis • major general james wilson civil war • Nathan Bedford Forrest • us civil war cavalry corps • US Civil War history • wilsons raid civil war
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-8332-4 / 0813183324
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8332-9 / 9780813183329