U.S. Army troops and horses under the command of Maj. Gen. Benjamin H. Grierson camp outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in April 1863 during a break in their 600-mile raid through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Grierson's forces were part of a series of federal raids through the South during the Civil War, with his being the last of the conflict.
Grierson's Raiders
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Courtesy of the Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections
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