GIVE 'EM HELL BOYS!
The Complete Military Correspondence of Nathan Bedford Forrest

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 this 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 three 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.

An attractive, unique, affordable, and popular tourist-friendly work that will appeal to both casual Civil War buffs and hardcore Civil War scholars alike, Give ’Em Hell Boys! is the perfect addition to any retail outlet, including not only bookstores, but Civil War sites, historic houses, museum gift stores, antique shops, B&Bs, tack shops, motorcycle shops, and gun stores.

Tennessee author Lochlainn Seabrook, a cousin of General Forrest, is the winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal.  Known as the “American Robert Graves” after his celebrated English cousin, Seabrook is the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and the author of over thirty popular adult and children’s books, fifteen of them on the War for Southern Independence.

BOOK DETAILS
Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
ISBN: 978-0-9838185-6-4
LCCN: 2011946072
Edition: 1st (Civil War Sesquicentennial Edition)
Copyright: 2012
Format: trade paperback
Type: nonfiction
Genre: American Civil War, Confederate history, American history
Length: 310 pages
Illustrated: yes (b/w)
Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"
Cover: high gloss color
Paper: creme
Binding: softcover, perfect
Weight: 13 oz.
Price: $23.95

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