Yankee Blitzkrieg Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia

Author/Creator:: Jones, James Pickett
Publication/Creation:: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000
Format:: Book

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Full Title:: Yankee Blitzkrieg Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia / James Pickett Jones

Subjects:: Wilson, James Harrison,1837-1925
Wilson's Cavalry Raid, 1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations
Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations

Table of Contents:: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I ""Jine the Cavalry""; II ""Prepare to Mount""; III Getting the Bulge on Forrest; IV Wilson's Invincibles; V Rocking the Cradle; VI ""A Most Gallant Night Attack""; VII The Lost Brigade; VIII Macon, Davis, and Peace; Notes; Critical Essay on Sources; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-242) and index.
Summary:: 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 yea
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (273 p.)
General Note:: Originally published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1976.