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Review �Major Civil War author Timothy B. Smith has done it again. He insightfully sheds important light on U. S. Grant�s use of Union cavalryman Benjamin Grierson�s speed and stealth to confuse the Confederates and help him capture Vicksburg. Another well-researched and well-written military history by one of the nation�s leading Civil War historians.� (John F. Marszalek, Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University)�Adding his best work yet to an impressive and ever-expanding list of publications, Tim Smith�s release of The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson�s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi promises to be a blockbuster the magnitude of John Ford�s 1959 film starring John Wayne and William Holden. This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, D. Brown�s Grierson�s Raid as the standard work on what William T. Sherman called the war�s �most brilliant raid.�� (Terrence J. Winschel, historian (ret.), Vicksburg National Military Park)�Ulysses S. Grant proved he was the master of the strategic cavalry raid by launching Col. Benjamin Grierson�s spring 1863 cavalry ride through the heart of Confederate Mississippi. The bold and exciting raid created so much havoc within Southern command circles that Grant was able to sneak across the Mississippi River against minimal opposition, dooming Vicksburg. The Real Horse Soldiers, award-winning Western Theater historian Timothy B. Smith�s excellent new release, draws upon a wide variety of previously untapped primary sources and brings to life in vivid detail the importance of this cavalry thrust. I highly recommend it.� (Eric J. Wittenberg, award-winning author of Holding the Line on the River of Death:)'Impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well researched, written, organized and presented, 'The Real Horse Soldiers' is enhanced for academia with the inclusion of maps, illustrations, a sixteen page bibliography, a twelve page list of acknowledgments, and an eleven page index.' (Midwest Book Review)�A very valuable contribution to the literature of the Vicksburg campaign and the role of cavalry in the Civil War, this also throws some light on the art of deception as practiced at the time.� (The NYMAS Review) Read more About the Author Timothy B. Smith (Ph.D. Mississippi State University, 2001) is a veteran of the National Park Service and currently teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. In addition to many articles and essays, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of eighteen books, including Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg (2004), which won the nonfiction book award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (2012), which won the Fletcher Pratt Award and the McLemore Prize, Shiloh: Conquer or Perish (2014), which won the Richard B. Harwell Award, the Tennessee History Book Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award, and Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (2016), which won the Tennessee History book Award, the Emerging Civil War Book Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. He is currently writing a book on the May 19 and 22 Vicksburg assaults. He lives with his wife Kelly and children Mary Kate and Leah Grace in Adamsville, Tennessee. Read more
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