THE CONFEDERACY'S GREATEST CAVALRYMAN; NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST.

Wills, Brian Steel. Emory M. Thomas (Foreword). [Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1821-1877.]

ISBN 10: 0700608850 / ISBN 13: 9780700608850

Published by Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, [circa 2007-2011]., 1998

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Reprint INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xx, 457 pages. Paperback. Paper covers lightly rubbed. Some soiling to text block's fore-edge. Author's seven-line ink inscription to a Starkville, Mississippi resident dated September 2011 on half-title page; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. Although originally published in 1992 this copy (denoted as a sixth printing per copyright page number line) must have been issued between 2007 to 2011 with the latter being the year of the inscription and the former year being when thirteen digit ISBNs commenced as the extended ISBN is specified upon the book's rear cover. {CivilWar-Shelf#1} ISBN 9780700608850.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CONFEDERACY'S GREATEST CAVALRYMAN; NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST.
• Publisher: Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, [circa 2007-2011].
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700608850
• ISBN 13: 9780700608850
• Binding: Soft cover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War

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Synopsis

This is the best biography of one of the most exciting, colorful, and controversial figures of the Civil War. A renowned cavalryman, Nathan Bedford Forrest perfected a ruthless hit-and-run guerrilla warfare that terrified Union soldiers and garnered the respect of warriors like William Sherman, who described his adversary as "that Devil, Forrest . . . the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side."

Historian Bruce Catton rated Forrest "one of the authentic military geniuses of the whole war," but Brian Steel Wills covers much more than the cavalryman's incredible feats on the field of battle. He also provides the most thoughtful and complete analysis of Forrest's hardscrabble childhood in backwater Mississippi; his rise to wealth in the Memphis slave trade; his role in the infamous Fort Pillow massacre of black Union soldiers; his role as early leader and Grand Wizard of the first Ku Klux Klan; and his declining health and premature death in a reconstructing America.

About the Author

Brian Steel Wills is professor of history at Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia and a former professor of history at Georgia Southern University. His articles have appeared in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Journal of Military History, and Parameters.