A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir

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Benjamin’s father, Robert Grierson. Courtesy Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, Texas. Left to right: The Grierson brothers, John Charles and Benjamin Henry, and their wives, Elizabeth and Alice Kirk, ca. 1854. Courtesy Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, Texas. “The Old Homestead” at 852 East State Street, Jacksonville, Illinois. Courtesy Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, Texas. Brig. Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss. Courtesy National Archives, Washington, D.C. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Courtesy Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. Illinois governor Richard Yates. Courtesy Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois. Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Courtesy Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. Capt. Samuel L. Woodward. Courtesy Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois. Bvt. Maj. Gen. Edward E. Hatch. Courtesy National Archives, Washington, D.C. Grierson’s Raiders outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana. From Francis T. Miller, ed., The Photographic History of the Civil War: The Cavalry. New York: Review of Reviews, 1912. Brig. Gen. William Sooy Smith. Courtesy National Archives, Washington, D.C. Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis. Courtesy National Archives, Washington, D.C. Bvt. Maj. Gen. Benjamin H. Grierson. Courtesy Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, Texas. Alice Kirk Grierson at the end of the Civil War. Courtesy Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis, Texas. ...