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Benjamin H. Grierson
career officer in the United States Army
Years: 1826 - 1911
Benjamin Henry Grierson (July 8, 1826 – August 31, 1911) is a music teacher, then a career officer in the United States Army.
He is a cavalry general in the volunteer Union Army during the Civil War and later leads troops in the American Old West.
He is most noted for an 1863 expedition through Confederate-held territory that severs enemy communication lines between Vicksburg, Mississippi and Confederate commanders in the Eastern Theater.
After the war he organizes and leads the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry Regiment from 1866 to 1890.
