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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, James Pickett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925.

Wilson, James Harrison.

Wilson's Cavalry Raid, 1865.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations.

United States.

Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations.

Georgia.

Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations.

Alabama.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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

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

Notes:

Originally published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1976.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-242) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-5611-4

0-8131-6164-9

OCLC:

900345099