Bedford Forrest
And His Critter Company
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 1993
434 pages
978-1-4616-3270-2 (ISBN)
Description
This biography of the Confederacy's greatest cavalry leaders is considered by many to be the best. Southern Classics Series.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-3270-2 (9781461632702)
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11/1993
J S Sanders and Company Incorporated
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Person
One of the original Southern Agrarians, Andrew Lytle has written four novels, the biography Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company, short fiction, literary criticism, and numerous essays. A former editor of The Sewanee Review, he continues to live in Tennessee.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: The Wilderness Road
- Chapter I: A Basket of Chickens
- Chapter II: New Ground
- Chapter III: The End of the Road
- Chapter IV: The Irrepressible Conflict
- Part Two: Donelson-A Tragedy of Errors
- Chapter V: Gray Lines Cross a River
- Chapter VI: The Blue Racer Circles, and the Rattler Coils, in the Tennessee Bottoms
- Chapter VII: Capitulation . . . to a Picket Fence
- Part Three: Forrest or Bragg
- Chapter VIII: A Birthday Party
- Chapter IX: Separating Grant from his Base
- Chapter X: A Bluff and a Streight
- Chapter XI: The Middle Tennessee Campaign
- Chapter XII: Rats in the Wall
- Chapter XIII: Chickamauga-The First Day
- Chapter XIV: Chickamauga-The Second Day
- Part Four: The Atlanta Campaign in North Mississippi
- Chapter XV: Raising a Command Within Enemy Lines
- Chapter XVI: "Sookey" Smith Does Not Reach Sherman
- Chapter XVII: Holding West Tennessee for the Confederacy
- Chapter XVIII: Brice's Cross-Roads
- Chapter XIX: Harrisburg
- Chapter XX: One Foot in the Saddle
- Chapter XXI: A Great Success that Failed
- Chapter XXII: Gunboats and "Hoss" Marines
- Part Five: Postlude
- Chapter XXIII: Nashville
- Chapter XXIV: The Last Fight
- Chapter XXV: The Invisible Empire and its Wizard
- Chapter XXVI: In a Funeral Hack
- Farewell to Troops
- Bibliographical Note
- Index
