@article{732419,
      author = {Wills, Brian Steel,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/732419},
      title = {A battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford  Forrest /},
      publisher = {HarperCollins,},
      abstract = {Sherman called him "That devil, Forrest" and "the most  remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side."  Bruce Catton rated him "one of the authentic military  geniuses of the whole war." And Grant said, "For the  particular kind of warfare which Forrest had carried on  neither army could present a more effective officer." Not  only does A Battle from the Start describe Forrest's  incredible and dramatic feats on the battlefield, it covers  his childhood and youth as the oldest son of a poor farmer  on the Mississippi frontier, who took over responsibility  for the family's survival as a young boy when his father  died, and his later move to Memphis, where he became a  millionaire in the slave trade. It describes Forrest's life  after the war: his acceptance of the defeat of the Southern  cause rather than defiant flight to foreign shores, his  declining business fortunes, his deteriorating health from  a body worn down by the war's rigors, and his premature  death. - Jacket flap.},
      recid = {732419},
      pages = {xix, 457 pages :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {1992},
}