Nathan Bedford Forrest A Biography Author:Jack Hurst He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America s most celebrated war. A superb tactician and ferocious fighter, Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of rising from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army. — In this detailed a... more »nd fascinating account of the legend of the ''Wizard of the Saddle,'' we see a man whose strengths and flaws were both of towering proportions, a man possessed of physical valor perhaps unprecedented among his countrymen. And, ironically, Forrest--the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan--was a man whose social attitudes may well have changed farther in the direction of racial enlightenment over the span of his lifetime than those of most American historical figures.« less