Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography - Hardcover

Hurst, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394551893 ISBN 13: 9780394551890

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Recounts the life and career of the infamous Confederate general, from the success of his guerilla tactics on the battlefield, to his postwar involvement with the Ku Klux Klan

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Hurst is a historian and former journalist who has written for newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Nashville Tennessean. His books include Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War, and Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest--Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga. A native of Maryville, Tennessee and a descendant of both Union and Confederate soldiers, he currently lives with his wife outside Nashville, Tennessee.

From the Inside Flap:

stocratic 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 moderat

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0394551893
• ISBN 13: 9780394551890
• Binding: Hardcover