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Title: Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company by Andrew Nelson Lytle ISBN: 1-879941-09-0 Publisher: J. S. Sanders and Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great reading, but definitely not for the "P.C." crowd.
Comment: In terms of his impact on modern warfare, no general of the Civil War had more than Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. Not Grant, not Lee, not Longstreet or Sherman. This is the man. No less a general than Erwin Rommel studied Forrest's tactics and implemented them with modern weaponry when his Afrika Korps marched all over Libya and Egypt in World War II.
The reason I say this book isn't for the "politically correct" is that it was written some 70 years ago, by a man of the old South who obviously idolized Forrest and everything he stood for. As you know already, not everything Forrest stood for was good. He was 100 years ahead of his time as a soldier, but stuck in 1860 in his personal beliefs.
But...getting into the book. He was a brilliant commander who never had enough men under his command to turn the war in the South's favor. Still, he was a hero to the people of the Tennessee river valley where he won most of his victories, with good reason. When the Union troops overran these areas and placed them under military rule, Forrest made sure they treated the citizens decently. Once he even saved a group of innocent men from a flaming death at the hands of vengeful Union soldiers whom he was defeating in battle. Reading these and other stories makes you understand why he was such a hero to the author, who would have heard first-hand accounts of Forrest's exploits.
Lytle believes that the South would have won the war if Forrest had been placed in command of the main Confederate army in the west, and he's probably right. Forrest was an extraordinary individual who had more impact on the 20th century than any other Civil War general.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great
Comment: I never fully appreciated the intellect of Forrest until I finished this book. It peels away the myths about the man, and tells about what he was really like. I loved it, and often flip around in it from time to time. A must for Civil War buffs!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Stunning Achievement
Comment: Cunning as the Devil was Nathan Bedford Forrest and this book indicates just how quick and clever this military genius was. Little wonder then that Lee considered this dark knight to be his finest soldier, above even the legendary Stonewall Jackson.
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Title: That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth ISBN: 0807115789 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N. B. Forrest and of Forrest's Cavalry,: With Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations by Thomson Jordan, J. P. Pryor, Thomas Jordan ISBN: 030680719X Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography by Jack Hurst ISBN: 067974830X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest by Brian Steel Wills ISBN: 0700608850 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.02 |
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Title: May I Quote You, General Forrest: Observations and Utterances of the South's Great Generals by Randall J. Bedwell ISBN: 1888952350 Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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