James Pickett Jones

This is a thorough, balanced study of James Harrison Wilson's late Civil War cavalry raid on Alabama and Georgia. It is well substantiated and engagingly written. This was an aspect of the Civil War I was particularly curious about, and for which few detailed accounts are available other than in Wilson's own lengthy autobiography. My questions were fully answered, and the story was exciting as well. The author does very well in explaining Wilson's innovations in mass cavalry strategy and tactics, which were later influential on motorized warfare; hence the title.… (meer)