Preview – Smith, “The Real Horse Soldiers”

New from Savas Beatie is Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi. Most of us are familiar with this courtesy of John Wayne and William Holden. But as the title says, this is the fact behind the 1959 film (though not directly related to the film – for that, see Neil Longley York’s Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory.

You get:

• 315 pages of narrative in preface, prologue, 11 chapters, and epilogue.
• Bottom of page footnotes.
• Bibliography with 5 1/2 pages of manuscript and newspaper sources.
• Full index
• 13 maps
• 36 photographs

Dr. Timothy B. Smith is a former National Park Service employee and now teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of numerous and award winning books – see his author page here.