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Title: A polemic not a narative
Review: Far too biased with an agenda. Forrest who was praised by both Gen Sherman and Lee for his military prowess is dismmised as a country rube that got lucky in Battle. Sherman's own report to Grant exonerates Forrest in Fort Pillow..The entire tone of the work is so redolent with contempt for Forrest and the Confederacy it might have been written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.Ward goes on about Confederate prisons with no mention of the savagery of Union prisons, where the Union did have food and medicine and simply refused to provide it.
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