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Acknowledgments
Many people across the United States have aided me in this book, and I am most grateful to them for their work on my behalf. My parents, George and Miriam Smith, have always been my biggest cheerleaders, and although it was not a conscious decision on their part, I was fortunate enough to be raised by them amid the very area where much of Grierson’s Raid took place. I currently live in West Tennessee, just east of La Grange. I lived for 10 years along Grierson’s route near Cherry Creek, between New Albany and Pontotoc. My grandparents lived in Neshoba and Newton Counties, in Philadelphia and Union, both of which Grierson passed through. Our travels to grandparents necessarily followed much of Grierson’s route southward down Highway 15 through Pontotoc, Houston, and eventually to Louisville and Noxapater. Grierson’s slight detour to the east to Starkville was amply covered when I spent four years gaining a PhD at Mississippi State University. My family also has connections even beyond Newton, such as around Enterprise and Meridian, where I was born. Another branch of my family came from Smith County farther south, through which Grierson also passed. I count it a privilege and an honor to have been born and raised in Mississippi for many reasons, including, specifically for this book, providing an intimate knowledge of much of the area involved in Grierson’s Raid.
Many people along this route and in other places aided my research. The many staff at the various national, state, and local libraries and archives were most helpful, particularly those at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, the University of Illinois, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and in the many county libraries and historical societies in both Mississippi and Illinois. In particular, Debbie Hamm, Roberta Fairburn, Bill Manhart, John Heiner, Sara Strickland, Libby Thornton, Jessica Perkins Smith, Krista Gray, Johna Picco, Denise Dickerson, and Jeff Giambrone were of immense help.
Several went above and beyond and deserve particular mention. Greg Biggs, Christopher Slocombe, Bjorn Skaptason, Michele Surbey, Randy Beck, and Steve Hicks graciously shared material from their collections. Jim Woodrick of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History helped locate several sites, and Terry Winschel, Tom Parson, Laurie Schiller, Dave Roth, Shirley Leckie, and Bruce Dinges aided in background context. John F. Marszalek and Terry Winschel read the manuscript and provided plenty of good feedback. Ted Savas and his staff at Savas Beatie did a wonderful job on the finished product.
Several people helped me find sites and plantations where Grierson’s troops camped. Jill Smith of New Albany helped locate several locations around that area. Jack Elliott of Palo Alto showed me the battle sites as well as Benjamin Kilgore’s plantation and burial place. Joe Gibbon, who happens to be a 13-year veteran of the major leagues and a member of the 1960 World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates) showed me old Garlandville. Rudy Burnett showed me the Elias Nichols plantation house site and his grave. Joe Moss provided detail on the Chambers McAdory plantation just east of the Leaf River, which his family owns. Mark Tullos, who is an attorney and a member of the Mississippi state legislature, provided access to his family’s Leaf River property where Grierson crossed and burned the bridge. Steve Amos, chancery clerk of Copiah County, helped pinpoint the Jesse Thompson plantation.
All of these had a big hand in this book and discovering the exact route of Grierson’s travels. But my most special thanks go to my wife, Kelly, and girls, Mary Kate and Leah Grace, who continue to be my best friends. I thank God daily for them as I do for His eternal love and watch care.
Timothy B. Smith
Adamsville, Tennessee
About the Author
Timothy B. Smith (Ph.D. Mississippi State University, 2001) is a veteran of the National Park Service and currently teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
In addition to many articles and essays, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of eighteen books, including Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg (2004), which won the nonfiction book award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (2012), which won the Fletcher Pratt Award and the McLemore Prize, Shiloh: Conquer or Perish (2014), which won the Richard B. Harwell Award, the Tennessee History Book Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award, and Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (2016), which won the Tennessee History Book Award, the Emerging Civil War Book Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. He is currently writing a book on the May 19 and 22 Vicksburg assaults.
He lives with his wife Kelly and children Mary Kate and Leah Gr
ace in Adamsville, Tennessee.
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