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Bedford Forrest and his critter company / by Andrew Nelson Lytle.
- Title
- Bedford Forrest and his critter company / by Andrew Nelson Lytle.
- Author
- Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995
- Publication
- Seminole, Fla. : Green Key Press, 1984, c1931.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E467.1.F72 L9 1984 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 402 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Nathan Bedford Forrest ... fought like the devil. The author, a strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome"--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 393-396.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. The Wilderness Road. A basket of chickens -- New ground -- The end of the road -- The irrepressible conflict -- pt. 2. Donelson : a tragedy of errors. Gray lines cross a river -- The Blue Racer circles, and the Rattler coils, in the Tennessee bottoms -- Capitulation : to a Picket fence -- pt. 3. Forrest or Bragg. A birthday party -- Separating Grant from his base -- A bluff and a straight -- The Middle Tennessee campaign -- Rats in the wall -- Chickamauga : the first day -- Chickamauga : the second day -- pt. 4. The Atlanta campaign in north Mississippi. Raising a command within enemy lines -- "Sookey" Smith does not reach Sherman -- Holding West Tennessee for the Confederacy -- Brice's crossroads -- Harrisburg -- One foot in the saddle -- A great success that failed -- Gunboats and "Hoss" Marines -- pt. 5. Postlude. Nashville -- The last fight -- The invisible empire and its wizard -- In a funeral hack.
- ISBN
- 0910783012 :
- LCCN
- ^^^84080060^
- OCLC
- 10988753
- SCSB-12308901
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library