1931 First Putnam Issue Bedford Forrest & His Criiter Company Civil War History

  

A 6x9 inch hardback containing 402 pages with 5 illustrations and 6 maps. Originally published by Minton Balch, coincidentally published in the same year as this one published by G. P Putnam's Sons / with untrimmed page edges. Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 - October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader. Active in the lower Mississippi River.

Valley, a Confederate States Army. General during the American Civil War. He was a founding member and the first Grand Wizard. Of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan.

Serving from 1867 to 1869. Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a horse and cattle trader, real estate broker. In June 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and became one of the few soldiers during the war to enlist as a private.

And be promoted to general. An expert cavalry leader, Forrest was given command of a corps. And established new doctrines for mobile forces, earning the nickname "The Wizard of the Saddle". He used his cavalry troops as mounted infantry.

As the lead in battle, thus helping to "revolutionize cavalry tactics". His role in the massacre of several hundred U. Army soldiers at Fort Pillow remains controversial, as the most infamous application of the Confederate no-quarter policy. In April 1864, in what has been called "one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history". Troops under Forrest's command at the Battle of Fort Pillow. Massacred hundreds of surrendered troops, composed of black soldiers and white Tennessean Southern Unionists.

Fighting for the United States. Forrest was blamed for the slaughter in the U. Press, and this news may have strengthened the United States's resolve to win the war. Forrest's level of responsibility for the massacre is still debated by historians.