Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465031846 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Forrest retreated, but he soon re-emerged as a fearsome war machine and guerrilla fighter. After ten days of horrific battle, Grant emerged victorious. Forrest was a slaveholder, Grant a closet abolitionist-but the two men held one thing in common: an unrelenting desire for victory at any cost. Grant had no significant military successes to his credit. By opening the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to the Union Army, he had split Dixie in two. But Grant had already changed the course of the Civil War. His opponent was as untested as he was: an obscure lieutenant colonel named Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was barely clinging to his position within the Un
Grant held firm for Confederate unconditional surrender. Col. Certainly, as Hurst says, western theater action often is overlooked in assessing the Civil War. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly The bloody February 1862 Union victory at Fort Donelson on Tennessee's Cumberland River is remembered as the Union's first big success—and as the battle in which Ulysses S. (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. But one can't ignore the impact on the war's outcome of the massive battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Cold Harbor that came after Donelson. Writing forcefully and engagingly, Hurst does a thorough job of reconstructing the military aspects of the battle and never shies away from illuminating the war's horror. Former journalist Hurst (Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography) attempts to make the case that Grant's western theater victory at Donelson i
James W. Durney said Readable but Questionable. I want to like this book much more than I do! Jack Hurst is an excellent writer. The portraits of the participants are skillful and incisive. The descriptions of battles capture the ebb and flow of the action and the reader is able to follow with few problems.. A Captivating Account of a Crucial Civil War Campaign Roy E. Perry In Men of Fire, Jack Hurst, a Nashville-based author and former journalist who has written for the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Tennessean, has penned a comprehensive, graphic narrative of a Civil War campaign that split the Confederacy . "The value of "Men of Fire" to those interested in the Civil War !" according to Monroe Silver. "Men of Fire" was everything that it was obviously supposed to be : a detailed account of the actions of two great leaders of the Civil War , one for the North & one for the South , during their first major Battle ,early in the Civil War and each being "basica