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Grierson's Raid
Part of the American Civil War

Col. Benjamin Grierson leading his 6th Illinois Cavalry
DateApril 17, 1863 (1863-04-17) – May 2, 1863 (1863-05-02)
Location
Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States United States (Union) Confederate States of America CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
Benjamin H. Grierson W. Wirt Adams
Robert V. Richardson
and others
Strength
3 regiments unknown

Grierson's Raid was a Union cavalry raid during the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. It ran from April 17 to May 2, 1863, as a diversion from Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's main attack plan on Vicksburg, Mississippi.[1][2]

  1. ^ Dee Brown (1954). Grierson's Raid: A Cavalry Adventure of the Civil War (reprint ed.). ISBN 978-0-89029-061-3.
  2. ^ "Civil War Harper's Weekly". June 6, 1863. Retrieved October 7, 2007.