Men of Fire : Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War
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Overview
In 1862, Ulysses S. Grant achieved what President Lincoln had sought since the start of the war: the first decisive Union victory. Fought on the western edge of the theater, the Forts Henry and Donelson campaign was a gruesome omen of what was to come. Grant, until then an obscure brigadier general with a reputation for drink, became the fighting man of the hour, earning the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant for his relentless pounding of the Confederates. But he had a match in ruthlessness in Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest, cavalry commander in the Henry and Donelson campaign, proved a counterweight to Grant: quick and nimble to the former's steady plodding, a ruthless slaveholder and future KKK Grand Wizard to Grant's abolitionism. Hurst captures the battle of these two great men and armies in all its destructive glory.
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- ISBN-13: 9780786157877
- ISBN-10: 0786157879
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date: June 2007
- Dimensions: 6.06 x 5.15 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.67 pounds
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