Unlikely Warriors

Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero & war commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," & his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against Vicksburg. In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers & black enlisted men. Appreciative of the achievements of his black Buffalo Soldiers & sympathetic toward the Indian people, Grierson did not fit the popular image of the Indian-fighting cavalryman, though in the 1880 war against Victorio he outfought one of the ablest of all Apache leaders. This edition includes a new preface on recent interest in the Buffalo Soldiers. "Unlikely Warriors is a bold in concept, well-crafted, insightful, & an important contribution to Western history."--PAUL ANDREW HUTTON, Arizona & the West. "The narrative shuttles skillfully from the battlefront against Rebels in Mississippi or Indians in Texas to the home front in Jacksonville, Illinois, & numerous post-war forts in the Southwest."--James M. McPherson, Illinois Historical Journal. "Unlikely Warriors should rest on all bookshelves devoted to military & frontier history."--Robert M. Utley, New Mexico Historical Review. William H. Leckie is the author of The Buffalo Soldiers & The Military Conquest of the Southern Plains, & Shirley A. Leckie is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer & the Making of a Myth, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.Leckie, William H. is the author of 'Unlikely Warriors' with ISBN 9780806119120 and ISBN 0806119128.