That devil Forrest
Subtitle: life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest
By: by John Allan Wyeth ; foreword by Henry Steele Commager ; maps by Jean Tremblay ; with a new foreword by Albert Castel.
Contributors: Wyeth, John A. 1845-1922.
Edition: Louisiana pbk. ed.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 614
Subjects: Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877.; Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography.; Generals -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
Other titles: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 579-601.
Slightly rev. ed. of: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. 1899.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper, 1959.
"Original illustrations by T. de Thulstrup, Rogers, Klepper, Redwood, Hitchcock & Carlton."
Includes index.