Grierson's Raid by Dee Brown

Author:Dee Brown [Brown, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-7418-7
Publisher: Open Road Media

* Grierson evidently confused the names of the scouts, George Steadman and Samuel Nelson. According to Sergeant Surby, who knew both men intimately, Steadman was quite small and wiry, not large and muscular like Nelson. From Surby, who was in charge of the scouts, we learn that it was the robust, hesitant talker, Nelson, who was ordered to Forest Station. Grierson’s description is certainly that of Nelson rather than Steadman.

* According to Stephen Forbes, they also considered breaking up and scattering, riding north by twos and threes, in the hope that though some might be taken, the rest would escape. “A consultation was held quietly by the leading officers as we rode along. … Should we return to Grierson’s trail and make another effort, under new disadvantages, at a direct pursuit? We stood three to one for the last alternative, and so we kept on to Garlandville.”—Stephen A. Forbes, “Grierson’s Cavalry Raid,” Illinois State Historical Society, Transactions, 1907, p. 112.

* Two Union officers admired by Cordelia Scales, who referred to them as “Irish Democrats.” They were with the 90th Illinois Infantry.

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