This book is a biography of Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, famously nicknamed Devil Forrest by Grant, considered by Sherman 'the most remarkable man our civil war produced on either side', and by all one of the most brilliant tacticians of the civil war. The accounts of this biography are primarily based on those who knew Forrest personally, and on contemporary military papers and records.
John Allan Wyeth was born in Alabama, and served as a private in the Confederate cavalry until his capture two weeks after Chickamauga. After the war he became a surgeon. He died in 1922.