Benjamin Grierson marries Alice Kirk

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1854, Alice Kirk and Benjamin Henry Grierson were married in Illinois.
Grierson entered the army during the Civil War and rose to the rank of major general.
After the war he commanded the "Buffalo Soldiers" of the Tenth Cavalry on the frontier.

… Alice left behind a remarkably frank correspondence describing the problems of raising a family in the frontier army.
Her letters were later published under the title The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson (University of Nebraska Press, 1989).
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