Featured Books May 2012
The Old Rebel: Robert E. Lee
As He Was Seen By His Contemporaries
By Lochlainn Seabrook
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Give 'Em Hell Boys! The Complete Military Correspondence of Nathan Bedford Forrest
By Lochlainn Seabrook
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By Lochlainn Seabrook
List Price: $23.95
SHNV/SWR Price: $17.96
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Nathan Bedford Forrest is best known for his role as a Confederate
officer in the American War for Southern Independence. While most
Forrest biographies discuss his military career in great detail, what
they do not provide is the General's own perspective of the conflict. In
his one-of-a-kind book, "Give 'Em Hell Boys!", Forrest scholar, Forrest
relation, and award-winning author Lochlainn Seabrook handily remedies
this situation. Neatly divided into five sections for each year of
Lincoln's War, as the subtitle indicates, the book encompasses all of
the General's military correspondence, from 1861 to 1865. In the 300
fascinating footnoted entries included, we find Forrest's reports,
dispatches, orders, returns, letters, notes, communiques, and telegrams,
as he himself wrote or dictated them, usually from the battlefield. His
missives were sent out to a wide assortment of Civil War figures, from
the president of the Confederacy (Jefferson Davis) and fellow
Confederate officers to his Yankee enemies, most of the communications
with the latter which ended with unsurprising results: immediate
surrender! Through Forrest's own words, we are able to track not only
the progress of the War, but his rise from private to lieutenant general
(one rank shy of full general)-the only man on either side to achieve
such a feat. Included along with a bibliography and an index are such
extras as a historical time line of the highlights of Forrest's life, a
list of all of Forrest's engagements, and a section on his recognition
by the Confederate Congress. Like the author's other works on Forrest,
"Give 'Em Hell Boys!" (named after one of his most famous war cries)
will help destroy the many anti-South myths surrounding the General,
giving him back his rightful place as a lauded American icon. Learn
about both Forrest the man and the Rebel officer from the great
Confederate chieftain himself, in this captivating read that is sure to
become a standard in Civil War literature. Lochlainn Seabrook, winner of
the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, is the sixth
great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and the author of over thirty
popular adult and children's books. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of
Appalachian heritage-who is known as the "American Robert Graves" after
his celebrated English cousin-Seabrook is a Southern historian and poet
with a thirty-year background in the American Civil War, Confederate
studies and biography, anthropology, thealogy (female-based religion),
etymology, the paranormal, genealogy, and comparative religion and
mythology. He lives with his wife and family in historic Middle
Tennessee, the heart of Forrest country. This is his fourth book on
General Forrest, and his thirteenth on the War for Southern
Independence. Seabrook's other titles include: "A Rebel Born: A Defense
of Nathan Bedford Forrest"; "The Quotable Nathan Bedford Forrest";
"Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot"; "Everything
You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!";
"Honest Jeff and Dishonest Abe: A Southern Children's Guide to the Civil
War"; "Lincolnology: The Real Abraham Lincoln Revealed in His Own
Words"; "The Quotable Robert E. Lee"; "The Old Rebel: Robert E. Lee As
He Was Seen By His Contemporaries"; "Abraham Lincoln: The Southern
View"; "The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation: A Southern History"; "The
Unquotable Abraham Lincoln: The President's Quotes They Don't Want You
to Know!";"The Quotable Jefferson Davis"; "Encyclopedia of the Battle of
Franklin"; "Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories: True Tales of the
Unexplained From Tennessee's Most Haunted Civil War House!"; and "The
Caudills: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study."
Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. During his presidency, Davis was never able to find a strategy that would defeat the larger, more industrially developed Union. Davis's insistence on independence, even in the face of crushing defeat, prolonged the war, and while not exactly disgraced, he was displaced in Southern affection after the war by the leading general, Robert E. Lee. After Davis was captured in 1865, he was charged with treason (although never convicted) and was stripped of his eligibility to run for public office. A West Point graduate, Davis prided himself on the military skills he gained in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and as U. S. Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce. As Davis explained in his memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) he believed that each State was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union.
Volume I, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,
By Jefferson Davis
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By Jefferson Davis
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A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davisex-president of the Confederacy, the ”Southern Lincoln,” popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate causebegan work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the cause,” and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed ”an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities.” The result was a perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820, through the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern states to the U.S. Congress in the late 1860s. Supplemented with a new historical foreword by the Pulitzer Prizewinning James M. McPherson, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I belongs in the library of anyone interested in the root causes, the personalities, and the events of America’s greatest war.
Volume II, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
By Jefferson Davis
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By Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. During his presidency, Davis was never able to find a strategy that would defeat the larger, more industrially developed Union. Davis's insistence on independence, even in the face of crushing defeat, prolonged the war, and while not exactly disgraced, he was displaced in Southern affection after the war by the leading general, Robert E. Lee. After Davis was captured in 1865, he was charged with treason (although never convicted) and was stripped of his eligibility to run for public office. A West Point graduate, Davis prided himself on the military skills he gained in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and as U. S. Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce. As Davis explained in his memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) he believed that each State was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union.
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