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Wilson's Raid: The Final Blow to the Confederacy
Contributor(s): Jr, Russell W. Blount (Author)
ISBN: 1467139033     ISBN-13: 9781467139038
Publisher: History Press
OUR PRICE:   $19.79  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials)
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
LCCN: 2017958379
Series: Civil War
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Jr, Russell W. Blount: - Russell W. Blount Jr. is a retired senior vice-president of Surety Land Title Inc. He is the author of four books on the American Civil War and has taught history at the high school level. An Alabama native, Blount is involved with a number of historical organizations, such as the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Civil War Trust. He is a frequent speaker at Civil War roundtables, battlefield parks, museums and other historical forums.