An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...

Powell, author of the very well-received The Maps of Chickamauga (2009), looks at how two of the South’s most seasoned troopers, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Joseph Wheeler wallowed in “miscues, ...