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Forrest proved to be a counterweight to Grant: quick and nimble to Grants steady plodding, a ruthless slaveholder and future KKK Grand Wizard to Grants abolitionism.

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.

Hurst has written a riveting account of the making of two great military leaders--Ulysses Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest--and two battles that transformed the American Civil War.

Forrest proved to be a counterweight to Grant: quick and nimble to Grants steady plodding, a ruthless slaveholder and future KKK Grand Wizard to Grants abolitionism.

A fierce and controversial Civil War officer, the unschooled but brilliant Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of his rise from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.

A fierce and controversial Civil War officer, the unschooled but brilliant Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of his rise from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.

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 habi...