-Dedicated to Civil War episodes, battles, people and ships
that also appear in GMT’s Rebel Raiders
on the High Seas, my next game.
April 17, 1863
Historical Event: Grierson’s Raid. On this date in 1863 Colonel Benjamin
Grierson set off with a brigade of 1,700 Yankee cavalrymen to ride deep behind
Confederate lines. His mission: to tear
up railroads, burn bridges and destroy rolling stock and any military supplies he
could find. The highly successful one-way
raid began in Tennessee, roared through Mississippi and ended at Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.
Game Connection: The disruption of Confederate supply and
production caused by the raid is recreated through the play of Union Card 42, The Horse Soldiers. The name is in homage to the popular John
Wayne movie of the same name, which in turn was based on the best-selling novel
by Harold Sinclair.
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