MEN OF FIRE; GRANT, FORREST, AND THE CAMPAIGN THAT DECIDED THE CIVIL WAR.

Hurst, Jack. [Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885; Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1821-1877.]

ISBN 10: 0465031854 / ISBN 13: 9780465031856

Published by New York: Basic Books, 2007., 2008

About this Item

xx, 442 pages. Paperback: H 22.5cm x L 14.5cm. Stiff paper covers lightly rubbed, slender 1cm loss at rear cover's top right corner. Pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good copy. Publisher's summary: "Recounts the Civil War battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, focusing on the opposing generals: Grant, in command of the Union forces and yet to win a battle, and his opponent, the equally untried but less fortunate Forrest." ISBN 9780465031856.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MEN OF FIRE; GRANT, FORREST, AND THE CAMPAIGN THAT DECIDED THE CIVIL WAR.
• Publisher: New York: Basic Books, 2007.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465031854
• ISBN 13: 9780465031856
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War

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Synopsis

Deep in the winter of 1862, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, two extraordinary military leaders faced each other in an epic clash that would transform them both and change the course of American history forever. Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant had no significant military successes to his credit. He was barely clinging to his position within the Union Army-he had been officially charged with chronic drunkenness only days earlier, and his own troops despised him. His opponent was as untested as he was: an obscure lieutenant colonel named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest was a slaveholder, Grant a closet abolitionist-but the two men held one thing in common: an unrelenting desire for victory at any cost. After ten days of horrific battle, Grant emerged victorious. He had earned himself the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" for his fierce prosecution of the campaign, and immediately became a hero of the Union Army. Forrest retreated, but he soon re-emerged as a fearsome war machine and guerrilla fighter. His reputation as a brilliant and innovative general survives to this day. But Grant had already changed the course of the Civil War. By opening the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to the Union Army, he had split Dixie in two. The confederacy would never recover. A riveting account of the making of two great military leaders, and two battles that transformed America forever, Men of Fire is destined to become a classic work of military history.

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, and Men of Fire. A native of Maryville, Tennessee and a descendant of both Union and Confederate soldiers, he currently lives with his wife outside Nashville, Tennessee.