Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort and Staff

The Journal of Southern History | February 1, 2008| | Copyright

Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escort and Staff. By Michael R. Bradley. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006. Pp. 238. $25.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-363-3.)

Nathan Bedford Forrest is often considered one of the finest cavalry commanders on either side of the American Civil War. Yet he could not have succeeded without the subordinate officers and men who followed him into battle. Among the best of these, as Michael R. Bradley observes in this study, were the members of the general's staff and personal escort. It is Bradley's task to bring these men out of not only the "shadows of history" but ...

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