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

Written By : Jack Hurst

Narrated By : Tom Weiner

Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 13 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Military

Price : $49.95 $26.95

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"An outstanding study of one of the Civil War's more controversial generals. Essential."Library Journal "The best all-around recent life of Forrest."Kirkus Reviews

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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