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Men of Fire|Jack Hurst

Men of Fire : Grant, Forrest and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War

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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: 9780786169603
  • ISBN-10: 0786169605
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish Date: July 2007
  • Dimensions: 7.45 x 5.39 x 0.62 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds

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