Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits (50 page)

7. Kiser,
COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL
, 82.

8. Kiser,
COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL
, 116.

9. Antoine Henri de Jomini,
THE ART OF WAR
(London: Greenhill Books, 1992), 29.

10. Douglas Porch, “Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare,” in
MAKERS OF MODERN STRATEGY: FROM MACHIAVELLI TO THE NUCLEAR AGE
, ed. Peter Paret (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986), 379.

11. C. E. Callwell,
SMALL WARS: THEIR PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
(London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), 83.

12. Kiser,
COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL
, 175.

13. Cited in Behr,
ALGERIAN PROBLEM
, 23.

7. NATION BUILDER: GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI

1. V. I. Lenin,
IMPERIALISM: THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISM
(New York: International Publishers, 1939), 76.

2. Mazzini’s exhortation to his comrades is cited in Christopher Hibbert,
GARIBALDI AND HIS ENEMIES: THE CLASH OF ARMS AND PERSONALITIES IN THE MAKING OF ITALY
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1965), 14.

3. Cited in Irene Collins,
THE AGE OF PROGRESS: A SURVEY OF EUROPEAN HISTORY FROM 1789–1870
(London: Arnold, 1964), 283.

4. Laqueur,
GUERRILLA
, 130.

5. Nina Brown Baker,
GARIBALDI
(New York: Vanguard Press, 1944), 21.

6. Giuseppe Garibaldi,
THE MEMOIRS OF GARIBALDI
, ed. Alexandre Dumas, trans. R. S. Garnett (London: E. Benn, 1932), 92.

7. Hibbert,
GARIBALDI AND HIS ENEMIES
, 21.

8. The conversation is recounted in Baker,
GARIBALDI
, 106.

9. George Macaulay Trevelyan,
GARIBALDI’S DEFENCE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
(London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), 203.

10. Trevelyan,
GARIBALDI’S DEFENCE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
, 215.

11. The Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 was the first in which one side—the Americans under Andrew Jackson—were mostly armed with rifles.

12. Baker,
GARIBALDI
, 288.

13. For more on this matter, see Howard Marraro, “Lincoln’s Offer of a Command to Garibaldi,”
JOURNAL OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
, September 1943.

14. Cited in Hibbert,
GARIBALDI AND HIS ENEMIES
, 361–62.

8. REBEL RAIDER: NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST

1. Derek Leebaert,
TO DARE AND CONQUER: SPECIAL OPERATIONS AND THE DESTINY OF NATIONS, FROM ACHILLES TO AL QAEDA
(New York: Little, Brown, 2006), 357.

2. See, for example, Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson,
ATTACK AND DIE: CIVIL WAR MILITARY TACTICS AND THE SOUTHERN HERITAGE
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1982).

3. On the pull of Jominian and Napoleonic thought on both Union and Confederate senior military leaders, see T. Harry Williams, “The Military Leadership of North and South,” in
WHY THE NORTH WON THE CIVIL WAR
, ed. David Donald (New York: Collier, 1960). Clausewitz’s work, which expressed some similar ideas about battle and “decisive points,” was not yet disseminated throughout the American officer corps.

4. This argument is implicitly supported by Martin Dugard,
THE TRAINING GROUND: GRANT, LEE, SHERMAN, AND DAVIS IN THE MEXICAN WAR, 1846–1848
(Boston: Little, Brown, 2008).

5. The most thorough account of Lincoln’s travails may be found in James M. McPherson,
TRIED BY WAR: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF
(New York: Penguin, 2009).

6. Cited in Bruce Catton,
THE CIVIL
WAR
(New York: American Heritage, 1961), 177.

7. The phrase is from Williams, “Military Leadership of North and South,” 54.

8. Walter Laqueur,
GUERRILLA: A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL STUDY
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 81.

9. Ulysses S. Grant,
PERSONAL MEMOIRS
(New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1886), 2:346.

10. On this period in Forrest’s life, see Jack Hurst,
NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST: A BIOGRAPHY
(New York: Knopf, 1993), especially 15–17.

11. Laqueur,
GUERRILLA
, 81–82.

12. Hurst,
FORREST
, 383.

13. The Rommel connection is made in Walter Sullivan’s preface to Andrew Nelson Lytle,
BEDFORD FORREST AND HIS CRITTER COMPANY
(Nashville, Tenn.: J. S. Sanders, 1992), xii.

14. Bruce Catton,
THIS HALLOWED GROUND
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956), 200.

15. On this point, see R. E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and W. N. Still,
WHY THE SOUTH LOST THE CIVIL WAR
(London: University of Georgia Press, 1986), 248.

16. Hurst,
FORREST
, 139.

17. Cited in James M. McPherson,
BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR ERA
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 676.

18. Quoted in Robert Selph Henry,
“FIRST WITH THE MOST” FORREST
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944), 193.

19. Albert Castel,
DECISION IN THE WEST: THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN OF 1864
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992), 346.

20. Cited in Hurst,
FORREST
, 207.

21. The officer was Colonel D. C. Kelley. See John Allan Wyeth,
THAT DEVIL FORREST: LIFE OF GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST
(Edison, N.J.: Blue & Gray Press, [1899] 1996), 573.

22. Cited in Lytle,
BEDFORD FORREST
, 390.

23. The article may be found in Robert S. Henry,
AS THEY SAW FORREST
(Jackson, Tenn.: McCowat-Mercer, 1956), see especially 20–35.

24. An excellent assessment of these views of Forrest may be found in Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill,
THE MYTH OF NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

9. GRAY FOX: GEORGE CROOK

1. S. L. A. Marshall,
CRIMSONED PRAIRIE: THE INDIAN WARS
(New York: Da Capo, 1972).

2. David Roberts,
ONCE THEY MOVED LIKE THE WIND: COCHISE, GERONIMO, AND THE APACHE WARS
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 57.

3. James M. McPherson,
BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR ERA
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 753.

4. George Crook,
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946), 87.

5. Crook,
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
, 98.

6. Crook,
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
, 107.

7. Crook,
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
, 141.

8. John Bourke,
ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971) 150.

9. Martin Blumenson and James L. Stokesbury,
MASTERS OF THE ART OF COMMAND
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), 207.

10. Robert M. Utley,
THE LANCE AND THE SHIELD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SITTING BULL
(New York: Holt, 1993), 141.

11. Russell Weigley,
AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
(New York: Macmillan, 1973), 162.

12. Perhaps the best account of this campaign may be found in Jerome A. Greene,
YELLOWSTONE COMMAND: COLONEL NELSON A. MILES AND THE GREAT SIOUX WAR OF 1876–1877
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006).

13. Mark H. Brown,
THE FLIGHT OF THE NEZ PERCE
(London: Putnam, 1967), 210.

14. The treaty went into effect on July 29, 1882. See Paul Wellman,
INDIAN WARS OF THE WEST
(New York: Indian Head Books, 1992), 419.

15. The definitive account of this episode is related by Crook’s subordinate, John Bourke, in his
ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK
.

16. Geronimo said that Chato and the scout Mickey Free warned him of the impending arrest. See Britton Davis,
THE TRUTH ABOUT GERONIMO
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976), 200–201.

10. VELDT RIDER: CHRISTIAAN DE WET

1. It is close to the German word for farmer,
BAUER
.

2. Winston S. Churchill,
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
, vol. 4,
THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1958), 374.

3. Cited in Byron Farwell,
THE GREAT BOER WAR
(New York: Penguin, 1976), 40.

4. Farwell,
THE GREAT BOER WAR
, 83.

5. Christiaan Rudolf de Wet,
THREE YEARS’ WAR
(New York: Scribner’s, 1903), 32.

6. Arthur Conan Doyle,
THE GREAT BOER WAR
(New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901), 434.

7. Thomas Pakenham,
THE BOER WAR
(New York: Perennial, 1992), 348.

8. Farwell,
THE GREAT BOER WAR
, 261.

9. Farwell,
THE GREAT BOER WAR
, 256.