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History Matters: Benjamin Grierson

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published December 11, 2018 at 6:45 AM CST
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Maj. General Benjamin H. Grierson.
Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, December 11, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner looks at the unlikely leadership of Benjamin Grierson, a cavalry officer with the Union who was fearful of horses.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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