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092 $a976.835$bHURST
100 1 $aHurst, Jack.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88106788
245 10 $aMen of fire :$bGrant, Forrest, and the campaign that decided the Civil War /$cJack Hurst.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c2007.
300 $axix, 442 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 419-424) and index.
520 1 $a"Prior to the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Union Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant had yet to win a battle and barely clung to command of his army. His commander was already seeking to replace him when, just days before this campaign, Grant was officially charged with chronic drunkenness. Grant's Confederate opponent, an obscure lieutenant colonel named Nathan Bedford Forrest, was similarly untested in battle. Politically, the two men could not have been more different. Forrest had made himself rich before the war trading slaves, while Grant had freed the only slave he ever owned. But the two had something in common: a desperate, unrelenting desire for victory at any cost." "Ill-clad Union and Confederate soldiers endured horrific combat in rain, snow, and sleet. Blood ran thick on both sides; wounded soldiers froze to death on the battlefields. After ten days, Grant won the victory he needed to keep his army and, ultimately, to save the Union itself. It was a turning point for Forrest as well. He had fought bravely but was undone by his superiors: a quarter of history's most flawed generals led the Confederate command. Nonetheless, Forrest emerged from these battles with fifteen bullet marks on his coat and an aura of iron. Forrest was beginning to win the renown that would later account him the continent's greatest horse soldier and one of its most wily, ruthless raiders." "The Fort Henry and Fort Donelson battles forever changed the course of the Civil War - and American history. Grant's dogged aggressiveness opened Tennessee to the Union armies and gashed a wound in Dixie from which the Confederacy would never recover. And, most importantly, Grant saved and launched the career of the individual on whom Federal triumph in the Civil War most depended: himself."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGrant, Ulysses S.$q(Ulysses Simpson),$d1822-1885$xMilitary leadership.
600 10 $aForrest, Nathan Bedford,$d1821-1877$xMilitary leadership.
650 0 $aGenerals$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105089
650 0 $aFort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85060272
650 0 $aFort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039038
651 0 $aTennessee$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133875
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCampaigns.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140216
852 00 $boff,glx$hE472.96$iH87 2007