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　　Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan

Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as

no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge,

mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman

called him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if it

costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the treasury." And in a war in

which officers prided themselves on their decorum, Forrest

habitually issued surrender-or-die ultimatums to the enemy and

often intimidated his own superiors. After being in command at the

notorious Fort Pillow Massacre, he went on to haunt the South as

the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Now this epic figure is restored to human dimensions in an

exemplary biography that puts both Forrest's genius and his

savagery into the context of his time, chronicling his rise from

frontiersman to slave trader, private to lieutenant general,

Klansman to -- eventually -- New South businessman and racial

moderate. Unflinching in its analysis and with extensive new

research, Nathan Bedford Forrest is an invaluable and immensely

readable addition to the literature of the Civil War.

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　　Nathan Bedford Forrest was the only soldier to rise from the

rank of private to general during the U.S. Civil War. At once "a

soft-spoken gentleman of marked placidity and an overbearing bully

of homicidal wrath," Forrest is best remembered for the combination

of brilliant military leadership and flamboyant bravery that drove

his Confederate cavalry troops from victory to victory on the

battlefield. His subordinates feared him (he shot those who turned

tail), as did his enemies (he rarely lost a fight). General Sherman

once said that Forrest must be "hunted down and killed if it costs

10,000 lives and bankrupts the [national] treasury." Detractors

point out that Forrest never has been exonerated from the Fort

Pillow massacre, in which many Union soldiers, most of them black,

were slaughtered after attempting to surrender. Following the war,

he went on to found the Ku Klux Klan. Late in life, however,

Forrest disavowed racial hatred and called for black political

advancement. Author Jack Hurst has written the essential biography

of a complex and compelling man who was arguably the Civil War's

most remarkable soldier. (Movie trivia: Forrest

Gump's mother named her son after this

general.)

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Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the treasury." And in a war in which officers prided themselves on their decorum, Forrest habitually issued surrender-or-die ultimatums to the enemy and often intimidated his own superiors. After being in command at the notorious Fort Pillow Massacre, he went on to haunt the South as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Now this epic figure is restored to human dimensions in an exemplary biography that puts both Forrest's genius and his savagery into the context of his time, chronicling his rise from frontiersman to slave trader, private to lieutenant general, Klansman to -- eventually -- New South businessman and racial moderate. Unflinching in its analysis and with extensive new research, Nathan Bedford Forrest is an invaluable and immensely readable addition to the literature of the Civil War.