Raid Strategies

Grierson's Raid: A Daring Cavalry Strike Through the Heart of the Confederacy
$18.00
"The most brilliant expedition of the Civil War." --General William Tecumseh Sherman

In 1863 Union colonel Benjamin H. Grierson was chosen for a secret mission: to lead three regiments of horsemen and a battery of artillery -- seventeen hundred men in all -- on a slashing raid through the state of Mississippi. Their objective was to damage a major Confederate rail line, spreading alarm and destroying enemy supplies in the process. Union leaders were relying on Grierson to provide cover as they moved thousands of troops into position for a major and ultimately victorious assault on Vicksburg, the South's vital transportation hub on the Mississippi River. Owing to Grierson's shrewd tactics, as well as luck and the skilled soldiering of his men, the raid was wildly successful in every respect.

Here is an exciting day-by-day account of this grueling sixteen-day adventure, which weaves together several first-person accounts from Grierson and his soldiers themselves and is heavily illustrated with maps and period photographs.

Raid on Richmond
$29.99
Raid on Richmond is one of the most challenging and unusual Civil War games ever published. The map is an accurate reproduction of the city streets and blocks of Richmond in 1864. Units move using the actual historical map features, not an hexagonal or other abstract overlay.

Target For Tonight
$14.98
As others have noted, this is not the famous World War II documentary. It does have some valuable footage and has some interesting sidelines on such things as Mosquito bomber raids. It is worthwhile, but still not the needed documentary that RAF Bomber Command deserves.

Great Raids in History: From Drake to Desert One
$27.50
Very good book. Good mix of well-known and little known events in history. Great collection!