Forrest At Brice ' S Cross Roads - Signed By The Author - Civil War
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Forrestat Brice's Cross RoadsBy Edwin C. Bearss; 1991, Laterprinting; published by Morningside Bookshop, Dayton, OH.; 382pp. in very goodcondition, no dust-jacket was issued. Signed by the author Ed Bearss (the late Civil War historian, and Chief HistorianEmeritus for the National Park Service.) “Ed Bearss, masterful battlefield tramper, balances Forrest'sgreat victory at Brice's Cross Roads and striking defeat at Tupelo withadmirable objectivity and detail. Perhaps of grea...ter importance, Bearss places these tactical episodes incontext, the ultimate strategic credit going not to some rebel wizard but toWilliam T. Sherman who could now breathe easier about his vulnerable lines ofcommunication.” (NCH) #13 In Taller Cotton 200More Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher, and Collector by Gary W. Gallagher, NathanielCheairs Hughes Jr., and Robert K. Krick In thesummer of 1864, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman was having his fragilesupply line attacked and disrupted by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and hiscavalrymen. Sherman ordered Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis to track down Forrestand destroy his entire command. Sturgis, greatly outnumbering his foe, trackedForrest to Northern Mississippi. Rather than run from an enemy force twice thesize of his own, Forrest decided to attack. In one of the greatest attacks ofthe Civil War, Forrest showed his tactical brilliance and why he was the"Wizard of the Saddle."Written byone of the greatest Civil War historians of his era, Forrest at Brice'sCross Roads recounts not only Forrest's victory, but his campaigns frommid-April to August 1864.
