# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-grierson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:22:17.298Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-grierson"
name: "Benjamin Grierson"
slug: "benjamin-grierson"
description: "Benjamin Henry Grierson was a music teacher from Illinois who, although afraid of horses, volunteered for service in the cavalry during the Civil War, commanding a cavalry division Army of the Tennessee and reaching the rank of major general in the United States Volunteers. He is most noted for Grierson's Raid, an 1863 expedition through Confederate-held territory that severed enemy communication lines between Vicksburg, Mississippi and Confederate commanders in the Eastern Theater. After the war, he became colonel of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, an African-American regiment from 1866 until his retirement in 1890."
tagline: "Union Army General (1826-1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_H_Grierson.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1826-07-08"
deathDate: "1911-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.82
  momentum:             5.986457476286398
  historical:           7.460408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump