James Harrison Wilson, a major general in the Union army during the Civil War, led a cavalry raid into Alabama and Georgia in March-April 1865, during the last weeks of the war. The cities of Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, and Columbus, Georgia, fell to Wilson's troops during the action, which is known today as Wilson's Raid.
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, #LC-B8172-2074.
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