9780679748304-067974830X-Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography

ISBN-13: 9780679748304
ISBN-10: 067974830X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Jack Hurst
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 448 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780679748304
ISBN-10: 067974830X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Jack Hurst
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 448 pages

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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography (ISBN-13: 9780679748304 and ISBN-10: 067974830X), written by authors Jack Hurst, was published by Vintage in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical) books. You can easily purchase or rent Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.19.

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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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