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Born to Struggle examines the Civil War's complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its very best information: Ulysses S. Give and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Both of these opposing giants squared off in a few of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and carrying on through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - fights in which the Union would gradually divide the western Confederacy, establishing the stage for the ultimate showdowns of this bloody and protracted discord. Grant is widely regarded as the man most in charge of winning the war for the Union; Forrest is known as the Confederacy's most fearsome defender in the Western. Both men experienced risen through their respective hierarchies thanks to their cunning and military services brilliance, and despite their checkered pasts. Give and Forrest were both lower-born officers who battled to triumph over particular, dubious reputations. With time, each became renowned for his brains, resourcefulness, and grit. You start with the Union success at Tennessee's Fort Donelson in February, 1862, Hurst follows both men through the campaigns of the next 20 months, demonstrating how this critical period - and these two unequaled leaders - would change the course of the war. An absolutely American story about class and merit and their role in another of the most formative wars in the country's record, Born to Struggle offers an impassioned profile of two visionary Civil Battle leaders and the clashing ethnicities they fought - in some cases, quite ironically - to safeguard. Hurst shows how Give and Forrest taken to the battlefield the fabled virtues of the American working class: ingenuity, effort, and extreme determination. Each man's backdrop added to his triumphs on the battlefield, however the open-mindedness of his fellow commanders proved just as important. If the North embraced Give, it triumphed in a stalwart defender. If the South declined Forrest, by contrast, it covered its fate.

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