General Grant will attend the event: Tracks of the Generals! at Holly Springs, Mississippi, on December 4th, instant. This event celebrates the famous raid by Confederate General Earl Van Dorn on Holly Springs on December 20th, of 1862, that destroyed all of the supplies Grant was going to use in his advance on Vicksburg. It forced Grant to fall back into Tennessee and delay his Vicksburg Campaign for several months.
The General will be joined by Julia Grant and they will observe the history of the raid in events that includes a tour of the raid and description of it by NPS Ranger Tom Parson.
Please attend and be a part of a day of History that remembers a significant Civil War event.
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