Brandon H Beck: 3 books
Holly Springs
Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas and the Raid That Saved Vicksburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Midway between Memphis and New Orleans along the Mississippi River, Vicksburg was essential to both Confederate and Union campaigns. With both sides bent on claiming the city, Vicksburg, and the fate of the nation, lay in the balance. General Ulysses S. Grant began his campaign on the city in November...
Streight's Foiled Raid on the Western & Atlantic Railroad
Emma Sansom’s Courage and Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Pursuit
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In the spring of 1863, Union colonel Abel D. Streight sought to raid and destroy parts of the vital span of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in north Georgia with his mule-riding infantry brigade. Determined to thwart the potentially deadly attack, Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest fervently...
by Brandon H. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
In February 1864, General William Sooy Smith led a force of over seven thousand cavalry on a raid into the Mississippi Prairie, bringing fire and destruction to one of the very few breadbaskets remaining in the Confederacy. Smith's raid was part of General William T. Sherman's campaign to march across...