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...BEDFORD FORREST AND His CRITTER COMPANY?Andrew Nelson Lytle?Minton, Balch...
...cavalry general was James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, killed at Yellow Tavern in the last days of the war, but when somebody asked Lee at Appomattox who was the greatest soldier under his command, Lee answered, "A man I have never seen, sir. His name is Forrest...
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) was no flower of Southern chivalry but a tough offshoot of Tennessee pioneers. He talked like a poor white; it is doubtful if he ever read a book on tactics; but he fought like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders...
...Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...
...Maestro Giorgio Polacco the Chicago Civic Opera had from 1920 until last year an able musical director. But many a Chicagoan believed that the Company's activities-the long-delayed premiere of Hamilton Forrest's Camille, for example-were hampered by Maestro Polacco's domestic difficulties with his wife. Edith Mason, an excellent soprano. Married twice before, Soprano Mason became his wife in 1919, divorced him in 1928 charging cruelty. "This," he said, "is certainly a dreadful blow to me." Then she married Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein. Chicago surgeon. Last October it was made known she would...