. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES HARRISON WILSON AND STAFF This brilliant cavalrymans demonstration of 1805 against Selma and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in aid of GeneralCanby s operations against Mobile and the center of the State, was one of the greatest cavalry raids in theWest. General Wilson was born in 1837, near Shawneetown, Illinois, and graduated at West Point in was aide-de-camp to General McClellan on the Peninsula, and served in the engineering corps in the Westuntil after Vicksburg and Chattanooga, when he was made brigadier-gene
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES HARRISON WILSON AND STAFF This brilliant cavalrymans demonstration of 1805 against Selma and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in aid of GeneralCanby s operations against Mobile and the center of the State, was one of the greatest cavalry raids in theWest. General Wilson was born in 1837, near Shawneetown, Illinois, and graduated at West Point in was aide-de-camp to General McClellan on the Peninsula, and served in the engineering corps in the Westuntil after Vicksburg and Chattanooga, when he was made brigadier-general of volunteers in October, 186.].In February, 18(54, he was put in charge of the cavalry bureau at Washington, and later commanded theThird Division of Sheridans reorganized cavalry. October 5, 1864, he was brevetted major-general of volun-teers for gallant and meritorious services during the war, and on the 24th of that month he was put in com-mand of the cavalry corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi. He took part in the battles of Franklinan
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