Word: forrester
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...sunrise on an April morning in 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 1,200 Confederate forces attacked the Union works at Fort Pillow in West Tennessee. Within hours the Rebs had butchered most of the ill-prepared garrison soldiers...
...little or no military value. Manned by former Negro slaves pressed into Union blue and by stringy white Tennessee hillmen whom the Rebels considered traitors to the Southern cause, it was a special insult to Confederate pride. Thus it was almost fatally marked out for a particular brutality. Forrest's men were themselves a motley lot by parade-ground standards: reluctant conscriptees, looting Texans, Mississippi red-hots...
GEORGE C. MARSHALL: ORDEAL AND HOPE 1939-42 by Forrest C. Pogue. 491 pages. Viking...
...with his 62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation at Lexington, Va., housing Marshall papers and memorabilia. Pogue can be relied upon to commit no injustice to the general. He can also be relied upon to use no fresh...
...Forrest P. Chisman, of Mont Alto, Pa. (Government); Richard W. Franke, of Kansas City, Mo. (Anthropology); Donald E. Graham, of Washington, D.C. (History and Literature); Roger E. Howe. of Ithaca, N.Y. (Mathematics); Wilbur R. Knorr Jr., of West Islip, N.Y. (History and Science); Eugene E. Leach, of Silver Spring, Md. (History); Richard I. Rabinowitz, of Brooklyn, N.Y. (History and Literature); Peter B. Shalen, of New York City (Mathematics), and W. Frank White, of Canton, Miss. (Social Studies...