A battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest / Brian Steel Wills.
1992
E467.1.F72 W55 1992 (Mapit)
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Title
A battle from the start : the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest / Brian Steel Wills.
Author
Wills, Brian Steel, 1959-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0060168323 (hardcover)
9780060168322
9780060168322
Imprint
New York : HarperCollins, ©1992.
Language
English
Description
xix, 457 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25cm
Call Number
E467.1.F72 W55 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7/3/092
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-445) and index.
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Table of Contents
Git thar fustest with the mostest
Young Bedford
The making of a planter
A chance for active service
Riders on the storm
Charge them boy ways
A streight bluff
Nothing to bragg about
The war hits home
War means fighting, and fighting means killing
Forrest's finest moment
There will never be peace in Tennessee
Making havoc among the gunboats
Advancing and retreating with Hood
I'm a-going home
Home is where the hearth was
Completely used up
A statue in Memphis.
Young Bedford
The making of a planter
A chance for active service
Riders on the storm
Charge them boy ways
A streight bluff
Nothing to bragg about
The war hits home
War means fighting, and fighting means killing
Forrest's finest moment
There will never be peace in Tennessee
Making havoc among the gunboats
Advancing and retreating with Hood
I'm a-going home
Home is where the hearth was
Completely used up
A statue in Memphis.