1-344-903 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Benjamin Henry Grierson, Union cavalry general, 1862-1867. In 1863 Grierson (1826-1911) commanded the operation known as Grierson's Raid, an 800 mile long advance deep into Confederate territory that formed part of General Ulysses S Grant's Vicksburg campaign. After the Civil War he organised and commanded the 10th Cavalry, one of two regiments comprised of black enlisted men and white officers popularly known as the Buffalo Soldiers. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.