Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography Paperback - 1994
by Jack Hurst
Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was an untutored guerrilla. He was so tenacious that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the treasury". Now this epic figure is restored to human dimensions in an exemplary biography. 3 maps.
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Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the treasury." And in a war in which officers prided themselves on their decorum, Forrest habitually issued surrender-or-die ultimatums to the enemy and often intimidated his own superiors. After being in command at the notorious Fort Pillow Massacre, he went on to haunt the South as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Now this epic figure is restored to human dimensions in an exemplary biography that puts both Forrest's genius and his savagery into the context of his time, chronicling his rise from frontiersman to slave trader, private to lieutenant general, Klansman to -- eventually -- New South businessman and racial moderate. Unflinching in its analysis and with extensive new research, Nathan Bedford Forrest is an invaluable and immensely readable addition to the literature of the Civil War.
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- Title Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
- Author Jack Hurst
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1994-03-15
- ISBN 9780679748304 / 067974830X
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.17 x 0.95 in (20.47 x 13.13 x 2.41 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Confederate States of America - Biography, Generals - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93042200
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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