Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-01-16
An Interesting Work.


"The Campaignsof eut.-Gen,
N. B. Forrest, and of Forests Cav
airy, with Portraits, Maps, and
Illustrations" has just been issued
from the press, and Mr.. Nathan
Boone, of this county, is general
agent for Lincoln, Giles, Marshall
Maury, Williamson, and franklin
counties. The book contains 625
pages, printed on fine paper, hand
somely bound, and illustrated witt
four ful.-page steel-plate portraits
one group of medallion portraits
together with copious maps anc
diagrams, and seven portraits or
wood, making one of the mos
complete and elegant historical
works ever issued from the Amer
- - go 10.
lean press.
Truly no exploits or operations
of the late war were more likely
to be Of general interest, nor be
more specially worthy of a lasting.
circumstantial chronicle, than the
heroic achievements of Forrest.
and of those tireless and intrepid
young men whom through all the
grades, from Lieutenant.Colone
to Lieutenant-Gen he led
with so brilliant a success. Any
work that will give even an ap
proximate estimate and sketch of
what leader and men accomplish
ed will be welcomed at this time
we have no doubt, even by those
whom they fought with such
hardihood, tenacity, and genera
success.
1t may be justly said that no sol
der on either side so fully carried
the genuine distinctive traits of the
American character into his mill
tary operations as did General
Forrest. In his career will be
found a wondrous blending of the
greatest audacity with caution,
vehemence in action, with cir
cumspection. "Ever attracted to
take the shortest line toward
his object" says the writer of
the work, she always knew how
to grasp opportunity, and was
never at loss for resources in the
most sudden, unexpected emergen.
cies. And though endowed with
stormy, fiery soul, as ever blazed
into heat and flame in any soldier,
yet he accomplished as much by
address and fnesse as by dash, or
by swift, sharp-smiting blows. a
strong man of action, of sleepless
temper, to whom war was an ag-
gressive, strenuous, killing man
ner of thing, General Forrest, new
ertheless, was not less adroit and
wary than resolute, indomitable,
and swift in bis operations"
Appended is a letter from Gen.
eral Forrest himself, accrediting
the work as one having his sane
ton in the highest sense:
MEMPHIS, TENN, Oct. 3, 1867.
3 In the work, now in course of
preparation by the Messrs. Blelock
& Co, will be found an authentic
account of the campaigns and OPP
erations in which / took part du-
ring the war for the independence
of the Confederate States. Be-
lieving it to be proper that there
should be timely and lasting rec
ord of the deeds, and services of
those whom / have been so fortu-
nate as to command, I placed allthe
facts and papers in my possession
or available to me, in the hands
of accomplished writers, who have
done their part with close and
research, and have
sndeavored to make up a chroni-
Gle neither over-wrought nor over
colored, as | can testify. For the
greater part of the statements of
the narrative am responsible, and
all facts and incidents derived
from other sources are properly
credited in the foot-notes. It is !