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1. Agrarian essays. The hind tit -- The small farm secures the state -- John Taylor of Caroline -- The backwoods progression. 2. Steady work. R.E. Lee -- John C. Calhoun -- A hero and the doctrinaires of defeat -- A retrospect on Bedford Forrest and his critter company -- How many miles to Babylon. 3. The long view. A Christian university and the word -- The search for order in American society: the southern response -- The momentary man -- Semi-centennial: an agrarian afterword -- A myth in a garden -- A journey south -- The abiding mystery -- They took their stand: the agrarian view after fifty years. 4. Two interviews. Monteagle, 1983 -- A conversation with Madison Smartt Bell.

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Bedford
Forrest

and His Critter Company

Southern Classics Series SOUTHERN CLASSICS SERIES M E Bradford Founding - photo 1

Southern Classics Series

SOUTHERN CLASSICS SERIES

M. E. Bradford, Founding Series Editor

Donald Davidson The Tennessee Volume I Donald Davidson The - photo 2

Donald Davidson

The Tennessee, Volume I

Donald Davidson

The Tennessee, Volume II

Caroline Gordon

Green Centuries

Caroline Gordon

None Shall Look Back

Caroline Gordon

Penhally

Caroline Gordon

The Women on the Porch

Johnson Jones Hooper

Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs

Madison Jones

The Innocent

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Georgia Scenes

Andrew Nelson Lytle

Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company

Andrew Nelson Lytle

A Wake for the Living

John S. Mosby

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

Thomas Nelson Page

In Ole Virginia

William Pratt, Editor

The Fugitive Poets

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

The Great Meadow

Allen Tate

Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier

Robert Penn Warren

John Brown: The Making of a Martyr

Robert Penn Warren

Night Rider

Owen Wister

Lady Baltimore

Stark Young

So Red the Rose

Bedford
Forrest

and His Critter Company ANDREW NELSON LYTLE with a preface by Walter Sullivan - photo 3

and His Critter Company

ANDREW NELSON LYTLE

with a preface by Walter Sullivan

Copyright 1931 1984 by Andrew Nelson Lytle Preface to this edition copyright - photo 4

Copyright 1931, 1984, by
Andrew Nelson Lytle

Preface to this edition copyright 1992
by J. S. Sanders & Company

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:
91-67518

ISBN: 978-1-879941-09-0

Published in the United States by
J.S.Sanders & Company
P. O. Box 50331
Nashville, Tennessee 37205

J.S.Sanders 1992 Edition
Second printing June 1993
Third printing November 1993
Fourth printing March 1995
Fifth printing August 1996

Manufactured in the United States of America

TO MY GRANDMOTHER
MOLLY GREAVES NELSON
who has heard on the hard turn-pike
the sudden beat of his horses hoofs
and the wild yell of his riders.

CONTENTS

by Walter Sullivan

by Andrew Nelson Lytle

PART ONE
THE WILDERNESS ROAD

PART TWO
DONELSONA TRAGEDY OF ERRORS

PART THREE
FORREST OR BRAGG

PART FOUR
THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI

PART FIVE
POSTLUDE

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAPS

PREFACE

We hear little about Nathan Bedford Forrest now. When our attention is directed to the Confederate Army, we are likely to think of Robert E. Lee or Jackson who earned the name Stonewall at First Manassas or the dashing J.E.B. Stuart who scouted far behind enemy lines and wore a plume in his hat. We think of Longstreet who may or may not have faltered at Gettysburg and of Pickett who made his famous charge during that same engagement. We are perhaps likely to think of these men because they were officers in the Army of Northern Virginia which won battle after battle during the early years of the Civil War. Forrest served with the Army of Tennessee which was a good army poorly led. Albert Sidney Johnston fought well at Shiloh, but died before he could consolidate his victory. Braxton Bragg, as readers of this book will discover, was a bungler who was continued in command of the Army of Tennessee too long. Joseph Johnston was not left in command long enough, and John B. Hood slept while an entire Union army slipped out of his grasp. Why, then, did Andrew Lytle choose to write of Forrest, a soldier whose victories have been overshadowed by the failures of the Army of Tennessee?

The answers to this question are both simple and complex. The most basic facts of Forrests life are sufficient to fire any authors imagination. He was a tall, strong, and ruggedly handsome man who, with less than a year of formal schooling, made a million dollars by the time he was forty and turned out to be a military genius when he went to war. Mistreated and betrayed by his commanders and hunted relentlessly by his enemies, he fought numerous battles, usually against superior forces, and never lost until the end, when he had no army left with which to fight. He was wounded four times, had twenty-nine horses shot out from under him, and killed thirty men in hand-to-hand combat. After the war he helped the widows of his fallen soldiers as long as he had means to do so, he tried and failed to build a railroad, and he served as grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in an effort to restore white dominated order to the South. Lytles claim that Lee called him the greatest general in the Confederate army cannot be documented. But Sir Douglas Haig, commander of British Forces in World War I, studied his campaigns carefully, as did Erwin Rommel, the famous Desert Fox of World War II. An account of his battles was published in 1930 by Captain Eric William Sheppard, O.B.E., M.C. Employing his cavalry frequently as mounted infantry, Forrest devised basic tactics for the kind of mobile warfare that was fought by tanks and motorized infantry in the Second World War.

Such a life begs to be written, and authors less skillful than Andrew Lytle began to write it almost as soon as the Confederate banners had been furled. John Morton and William Witherspoon, both of whom had served under Forrest, wrote their memoirs. General Thomas Jordan and J. P. Pryor sent their manuscript to Forrest for corrections and brought out their life of him in 1868. Captain J. Harvey Mathes and Dr. John Allen Wyeth composed their biographies near the turn of the century and gathered material from the surviving veterans of Forrests command. Lytle drew heavily from Wyeth and also talked to some ex-Confederates, but by the late 1920s their ranks had thinned and memories had grown dim. This seems to have been of no great consequence to Lytle. His book has no footnotes and only a scanty bibliography. His biography was going to be as much a work of the imagination as of fact; he was pioneering the form that Shelby Foote was to bring to brilliant fruition in his three-volume history of the Civil War.

Lytle was drawn to Forrest not only for the extraordinary dimensions of his character, but for what he represented in Lytles vision of the South. In The Hind Tit, his contribution to

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