Nathan Bedford Forrest: An All American Hero
My dear, dear friends,
I can only apologise for my long absence from these pages. Please do not think, however, that just because I was not praising this great nation and Our Lord on the World’s Greatest Website ? that I was not thinking of it and working for it in my prayers.
I now return from my travels a wiser and, I hope, a kinder, more compassionate man. One of the things that I saw that helped fill me with yet more love was the wonderful Confederate Museum in the beautiful American city of Charleston, South Carolina.
This whole building was a most touching tribute to those brave men who died in the name of freedom and justice. I was moved deeply to see so any holy relics from their time on earth. I could have spent all day wondering among the wonderful uniforms (too, too many stained with blood!), reading the letters those brave men wrote, gazing the water bottles from which they drank up so much life, marvelling at the little Bibles they carried with them over so many miles and through so much hardship?
The Confederate Museum in Charleston, SC. At last something to be proud of!
The most beautiful and touching things that I saw in this wonderful place were the relics gathered from the house of that great man Nathan Bedford Forrest. Of course, I was awed to see the nails that they had gathered from the very house in which he lived his great life. And I felt faint when I saw the block of pine they have there. It’s said that he even touched with his own hands. Isn’t that something?
Along with the sense of holy wonder that all this inspired in me was a deep gladness in my heart that some American patriots have not been scared by disgusting liberal scare tactics and the foul screeching that accompanies the black propaganda campaign against this wonderful American knight from days of old.
As my great friend Billy Bob Neck might say, ain’t no one going to put the scare on the Daughters of the Confederacy! These fine women who run that wonderful museum are actually descended from real life rebels ? and that noble blood clearly courses through their veins. They aren’t afraid to declare a hero when they see a hero!
And Nathan Bedford Forrest is a real hero. Don’t believe the poison that liberals will try to pour in your ears on this subject. Ignore their hateful agenda and recognize a rich piece of heritage. It’s one of the finest pieces in the beautiful jigsaw of this great nation under God.
NB Forrest. A grand man. A high man. A wizard of a man. How I long to be part of his clan!
God blessed Forrest with good fortune from a young age, but he did not spend this in dissolute idleness, chasing underage boys and getting his friends addicted to drugs like so many liberals today. No! He spent his money in a cause he believed in and laid his life on the line for that cause. He enlisted as a lowly private in the Confederate army when his home was invaded by Northern aggressors during the war of Northern Aggression. Soon, however, his great military talent and innate nobility and sense of right and wrong saw him rapidly promoted. Soon he was wielding God’s sword as a General and his men loved him as much as his enemies feared him. On the way through this great conflict he even invented mobile warfare? That’s the kind of warfare that would help America win two great world wars against fascism. So why do liberals hate him?
After the war, Forrest continued to stand up and to fight for what he believed: liberty, truth, natural justice, everything and everyone in its right place and the American way. He made it his solemn mission to rid the country of those vile Scalliwags who wanted to betray and undermine their friends. He became the scourge of those carpetbaggers who were moving in on Southern lands with the intention of exploiting its people. Forrest was opposed to exploitation of every kind, preferring instead to enact God’s will and keep each person in his appointed place as decreed by the laws laid down in the Bible. (See for instance Genesis 9:25-27). What’s wrong with that? Nothing!
So I ask again, why do Liberals hate him? Is it because they see in Forrest a better man than they will ever be. Does his great example show the filth and degradation of their own lives too clearly? Probably.
All Forrest wanted was to keep things in their place. Why does that annoy liberals? What business is it of there’s anyway?
He kept on working for natural justice until the end of his days and was adored and respected by all who knew him. After his death, his legacy lives on in thought and in deed and in the brave hearts of all men and women (like those of the daughters of the Confederacy) who value truth and freedom.
And yet, if you were to listen to the liberals who control our media, we are supposed to hate this great man? Why? It beggars belief. And their hate is so great that NB Forrest has even become a dirty word in the nation’s public schools and in the liberal media lie factory.
And that’s why I was so deeply touched to see some people are still keeping the flames of Nathan Bedford Forrest burning in Charleston, South Carolina. May those fires never go out!
May God Bless you all,
Sam Johnston
It’s heritage not hate!
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Sam, there’s only two things that scare me – the wrath of God and a DoCA with the curse!
No matter what you write, that flag is a symbol of fanatism and slavery, but nobody worries, because all those ideas are dead since a long time and proof of that is that tiny, lonely museum, runned by the daughter of the soldiers
This site is losing its touch. It’s not funny anymore.
God has buttsex with your children.
redneck sez: there?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s only two things that scare me – the wrath of God and a DoCA with the curse!
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the wrath of god should scare you!!!
Because nowhere in this article does it say it, the reason why Sam is so in awe of this man is because he helped start the Klu Klux Klan. He’s so embarrassed by this fact the he doesn’t even state it in the article. Sounds pretty cowardly to me.
Think Different, What flag flew on slave ships that came to this country? The US flag! What flag was carried by soldiers that massacred American Indians in the late 19th century and what famous Civil War General was in charge of many of those massacres? The US flag and Union General William Tecumseh Sherman! What famous Civil War commanding General owned slaves and was an anti-semite? Union General Ullysses Simpson Grant! What famous commanding General didn’t own slaves and wanted to end slavery? Confederate General Robert E.Lee! The US flag is the flag of slavery,(Destroying State sovereignty,individual sovereignty and making the people vassals of the federal government!)fanaticism,warmongering and genocide! Go to http://www.lewrockwell.com and read archive articles by Thomas DiLorenzo about how the history books lie(The victors of war write the history and lie about it!) about the Confederate cause(The cause wasn’t about saving the dying institution of slavery,it was about resistance to federal tyranny!) and lionize the insane Republican White supremacist near-dictator Abraham Lincoln who suspended Habeas Corpus,persecuted critics and laughed over Sherman’s tales of Southern genocide! Back In 1859,Lincoln proposed a Constitutional Amendment to make slavery lawful forever! It failed,so after becoming President and after war broke out,he planned on deporting all Blacks! He used the slavery issue as a political propaganda ploy since “saving the Union” wasn’t a strong enough propaganda ploy! The history books made him into a Christian “saint” when in reality he was an atheist and a wicked political opportunist! Just because these STR bozos pretend to understand the Confederate cause(I believe they’re liberal comedians doing a parody of Republican Christians,staunch Republican neo-cons usually gush over “Honest Abe” the Republican war President!) doesn’t mean the cause was wrong! I strongly believe the South should secede again from this tyrannical federal government!
When did Yankee aggressor imperialist invasion loving Republicans start appreciating the Rebel cause instead of singing the praises of that Yankee Republican Abe Lincoln? Your phony “conservatism” is more transparent than that of the Bush Regime’s Neo-Con men! It’s bad enough when you liberal comedians in the STR crew do your unfunny fake “conservative” shtick,do you have to make Neo-confederates look like fools? We stand for a cause that was about self-determination and against big government controlling our lives! But then,you worship big government just like the Neo-cons you parody,don’t you?
Why did these men put bed sheets on their heads and even on their horses? I think they are ghosts!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry that so many of you think that the sacrfices made in the Civil War are a laughing matter and something worthy of ‘satire’. All I said was that I’m just so glad that Nathan Bedford Forrest is such a figure of worship for so many people. And I’m sure Our Great Leader George W Bush loves NBF too.
And what is this crazy talk about republicans being big government?
The modern bloated Warfare/welfare State started under Lyndon Johnson and big government has grown under every President ever since! The National debt started under Reagan and has grown under every President since then! Republicans being big government isn’t crazy talk,it’s the facts! Every Republican President since Nixon has added more federal agencies and bureaucrats! By the way,no mortal man should be worshipped! The only man worthy of worship died on a cross for our sins! And George W.Bush isn’t supposed to be any kind of leader,he’s supposed to be a public servant! We the People were supposed to be the Sovereign Leaders of this republic! Most supporters of either of the two parties don’t seem to be able to grasp that concept,that was what the American Revolution and the Confederate cause were all about!
is this website a joke, because JESUS WAS A HOMO, and so was Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Danny, here’s yer chance to rise to the occasion, boy! Y’all can pull out the stops on yer “lack of sources and bogus claims” crap that you copy and paste into yer posts? Or did Lew Rockwell document these as facts, too?
God is Love!
BBN
Nathan Bedford Forrest. As a tactician a genius. As a human a miserable, rascistic, bogot failure. That?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s all I have to say.
Or not:
On the way through this great conflict he even invented mobile warfare?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ? That?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s the kind of warfare that would help America win two great world wars against fascism.
Just to your info:
WWI: You did the same everyone else did. Digging trenches. And you came way too late to claim the credit for that victory. PS: Germany?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s government in WWI was not fascism. Fascism was invented AFTER WWI!
WWII: Yes, mobile warfare. The Germans had to teach it you the hard way, but yeah, at least you learned from those lessons. Again, what did you take that long? The russians did most of the work.
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH!
Nathan Bedford Forrest was in the Ku Klux Klan until he decided they were too violent and radical for his taste! I remember reading that in grammar school in the Tennessee history textbook. He certainly influenced modern warfare,attacking “The fustest with the mostest” which paved the way for both the Nazi Blitzkreig and the Second Gulf War “Shock and Awe”! I don’t know anything about him being “A HOMO”,but he was a bigot and I wouldn’t put him up on a pedestal,much less make him a “figure of worship”! The Confederacy had some racist jerks,true but so did the Union side! The official history of the Civil War was white-washed to make the Union side look totally noble and right,while painting the Confederate cause as totally ignoble and wrong! A good book to read on the subject is “The South Was Right!” by James R.Kennedy and Walter D.Kennedy.
If the flag bothers you that’s just too bad! The rebel flag is the confederate flag. It is the flag of the 13 southern states. The Union Army had a flag representing the northern states. The northern states or the Yankees owned slaves just as the south did! Nobody is upset about there flag. And by the KKK was founded to protect landowners not to kill black people. That?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s why Nathan Bedford Forrest resigned from the KKK when it became corrupt! If the Rebel Flag bothers you than I guess the U.S.A. flag bothers you too, it has 13 strips on it as well. If an American is going to get worked up about a flag then maybe they are just IGNORANT! For the record the Civil War was not all based around slavery it was resources, power, and land!
“STUPID IS FOREVER BUT IGNORANCE CAN BE FIXED”
Take a history class!
Northerners did not own slaves. Due to a contraversial court case before the civil war southerners could go north with their slaves who would stay slaves because the government didn’t have the right to free them. Either way only southerners owned slaves.
This banter back and forth just shows that what was intended has been accomplished. There is only one truth and the rest is propaganda. Which is which is almost discernable at this point. Some points that were touched on are not true. There is no absolute proof that Forrest was in the klan. In fact after the civil war Sherman headed a committee to investigate it and found that he had nothing to do with it other than to call for its end. I also do not fell that he was a bigot. If you think that then you need to read his address to the Freedmans Society. Post war he fought for equality more than most in the country as a whole. This at the risk of alienating himself from his fellow rebels. When he became president of the Memphis, Marion, and Selma RR he hired black workers for jobs of importance while leaving white men to do more menial labor. He judged on intelligence and character more than color. His slaves fought with him through the war even after he gave them their “free papers”. The stayed and worked with him after the war. You cannot judge a man for what he has done if you don’t put it in context. At the time everyone owned slaves. He kept families together, reunited families, and let slaves pick their owners. He also bought slaves from brutal owners to find them better homes. The comment about northerners not owning slaves is total B.S. and not worth the effort. Forrest was a great man who overcame difficult odds. He is in many ways a hero, more so because of his character, determination, and grit than his tactics and the cause he fought for. Does he need to be worshipped, no, no man deserves worship that is left only to God.
While this was not written by me it cites researchable records. I encourage anyone that disagrees with the points in this writing to do the research.
Unfortunately, we live in a time which has seen the rewriting of history to a significant degree over the past several decades. Little of what is presented as “history” is actually a reflection of the reality and documentable history of the period. Nathan Bedford Forrest is a primary example of this situation.
The fact is that Forrest’s life and his personal positions were far different from what is popularly presented.
While Forrest was at one time a slave dealer his policies survived.
They included: His personal prohibition on separating families; his policy of purchasing and reuniting familes that had been separated; his choice to bring new slaves into his home to be cleaned and clothed by his personal servants; his policy of giving passes to new slaves and offering them the opportunity to determine for themselves to whom they would wish to be sold; and maintaining a list of those to whom he would not sell because he knew them to be cruel.
Some slaves of cruel masters even came to Forrest to ask that he purchase them away from their abusive masters.
The likelihood that Forrest would sell a slave impregnated with his child, if such a thing can really be proven by more than family oral history, would be remote based on his recorded personal policies and acts. Perhaps DNA testing would settle what is obviously a troubling matter for Mr. Ward. If Mr. Ward would not agree to DNA testing to prove conclusively whether or not he is descended from Forrest one would be prompted to wonder why.
After all, anyone can claim descendancy from anyone. Family oral histories are not always reliable.
Regarding Forrest’s conduct toward Blacks during the War, the following is germaine:
“‘First With the Most’ Forrest” by Robert Selph Henry, Indianapolis,
IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944, page 14 – “Forty-five of Forrest’s own slaves, indeed served through the war with him as teamsters. ‘I said to forty-five colored fellows on my plantation…’ Forrest told a Congressional committee after the war, ‘that I was going into the army; and that if they would go with me, if we got whipped they would be free anyhow, and that if we succeeded and slavery was perpetuated, if they would act faithfully with me to the end of the war, I would set them free. Eighteen months before the war closed I was satisfied that we were going to be defeated, and I gave those forty-five men, or forty-four of them, their free papers, for fear I might get killed.’”
When freed these men never left Forrest’s side and served as personal servants, cooks, teamsters, foragers, scouts, and eight of them served as Forrest’s personal armed bodyguards.
Is there proof that these men rode into combat with Forrest? Most definitely and from the most widely-accepted authoritative source:
Federal Official Records, Series I, Vol XVI Part I, pg. 805, Lt. Col.
Parkhurst’s Report (Ninth Michigan Infantry) on General Forrest’s attack at Murfreesboro, Tenn, July 13, 1862: “The forces attacking my camp were the First Regiment Texas Rangers, Colonel Wharton, and a battalion of the First Georgia Rangers, Colonel Morrison, and a large number of citizens of Rutherford County, many of whom had recently taken the oath of allegiance to the United States Government. There were also quite a number of negroes attached to the Texas and Georgia troops, who were armed and equipped, and took part in the several engagements with my forces during the day.”
Forrest later commented in 1871 that, “Those fellows never left me…and better Confederates did not live.”
The 1864 investigation of the Ft. Pillow “massacre” was wartime propaganda of the crudest sort. The intention was to inflame United States Colored Troops (USCT) to greater effort by making them believe that they could expect only death if they surrendered and provoke them to cruelty toward surrendered Confederates.
Their propaganda succeeded.
At the Battle of Marianna, Florida, on September 28, 1864, USCT briefly shot and clubbed surrendered Confederate Home Guard members until the 2nd Maine Cavalry restrained them. At Ft. Blakeley, Alabama, on April 9, 1865, USCT murdered significant numbers of surrendered Confederate soldiers by shooting, bayoneting, and clubbing them to death. When two white Union USCT officers tried to intervene both were shot by the Colored Troops. One officer died and the other was crippled for life.
In 1871 a Congressional investigation was convened to look into Forrest’s alleged involvement with the Klan and to revisit the Ft.
Pillow “massacre.” The investigation was chaired by Forrest’s old enemy, William Tecumseh Sherman, who told the press that, “We are here to investigate Forrest, charge Forrest, try Forrest, convict Forrest, and hang Forrest.”
The outcome of the 1871 investigation was twofold. The committee found no evidence that Forrest had participated in the formation of the Klan and that even the use of his name may well have been without his permission. They also found that there was no credible evidence that Forrest had ever participated in or directed any actions of the Klan.
“The reports of Committees, House of Representatives, second session, forty-second congress,” P. 7-449.
“The primary accusation before this board is that Gen. Forrest was a founder of The Klan, and its first Grand Wizard, So I shall address those accusations first. In 1871, Gen. Forrest was called before a congressional Committee along with 21 other ex-Confederate officers including Admiral Raphael Semmes, Gen. Wade Hampton, Gen. John B.
Gordon, and Gen. Braxton Bragg. Forrest testified before Congress personally over four hours .
Forrest took the witness stand June 27th,1871. Building a railroad in Tennessee at the time, Gen Forrest stated he ‘had done more , probably than any other man, to suppress these violence and difficulties and keep them down, had been vilified and abused in the (news) papers, and accused of things I never did while in the army and since. He had nothing to hide, wanted to see this matter settled, our country quite once more, and our people united and working together harmoniously.’
Asked if he knew of any men or combination of men violating the law or preventing the execution of the law: Gen Forest answered emphatically, ‘No.’ (A Committee member brought up a document suggesting otherwise, the 1868 newspaper article from the “Cincinnati Commercial”. That was their “evidence”, a news article.)
Forrest stated ‘…any information he had on the Klan was information given to him by others.’
Sen. Scott asked, ‘Did you take any steps in organizing an association or society under that prescript (Klan constitution)?’
Forrest: ‘I DID NOT’ Forrest further stated that ‘..he thought the Organization (Klan) started in middle Tennessee, although he did not know where. It is said I started it.’
Asked by Sen. Scott, ‘Did you start it, Is that true?’
Forrest: ‘No Sir, it is not.’
Asked if he had heard of the Knights of the white Camellia, a Klan-like organization in Louisiana,
Forrest: ‘Yes, they were reported to be there.’
Senator: ‘Were you a member of the order of the white Camellia?’
Forrest: ‘No Sir, I never was a member of the Knights of the white Camellia.’
Asked about the Klan :
Forrest: ‘It was a matter I knew very little about. All my efforts were addressed to stop it, disband it, and prevent it….I was trying to keep it down as much as possible.’
Forrest: ‘I talked with different people that I believed were connected to it, and urged the disbandment of it, that it should be broken up.’”
The following article appeared in the New York times June 27th, “Washington, 1871. Gen Forrest was before the Klu Klux Committee today, and his examination lasted four hours. After the examination, he remarked than the committee treated him with much courtesy and respect.”
Congressional records show that Gen. Forrest was absolved of all complicity in the founding or operation of the Ku Klux Klan, and he was certainly never a “Grand Wizard”. These committees had the utmost evidence and living witnesses at their disposal. The evidence precluded any Guilt or indictment of Gen. Forrest and the matter was closed before that body of final judgment in 1872.
The following findings in the Final report of this committee of Congress concluded, “The statement of these gentlemen (Forrest and Gordon) are full and explicit…the evidence fully sustains them.”
Regarding Ft. Pillow they found that although there were individual acts by Confederate soldiers there was no ordered or organized “massacre” and that Forrest had taken immediate action to stop such individual misdeeds as soon as he arrived on the scene. His horse had fallen and rolled on him the previous day and he was delayed by those resultant injuries.
They also found that two of the accusations of the most outrageous behavior were simply false.
Confederate forces were accused of burning Union barracks with wounded Union soldiers inside. Lieutenant Daniel Van Horn, Sixth U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery, whose report is contained in the Federal Official Records, documented that Lieutenant John D. Hill fired the barracks under orders of the Union commanding officer. Lieutenant Van Horn also reported, “There never was a surrender of the fort, both officers and men declaring they never would surrender or ask for quarter.”
Accusations that Confederates buried wounded USCT were also found to be false. This was determined by the testimony of Union officers to the effect that they has been put in charge of the burial of their dead and that no such live burials occurred.
Additionally Confederate records showed that Forrest forwarded 39 USCT to higher command as prisoners of war. The Federal Official Records contain a receipt from the Acting Master of the U.S. Steamer Silver Cloud to acknowledge that he had received from Forrest’s adjutant the most seriously wounded of the fort’s defenders, including 14 USCT.
It seems highly unlikely that someone committing a “massacre” would trouble himself by taking prisoners and certainly not by trying to ensure that the most severely wounded of those he supposedly “massacred”
received better medical care than he could provide.
An objective analysis of available evidence is available on our web site:
http://37thtexas.org/html/grandfab.html
After the War Forrest continued his life and by 1874 undertook actions which many of his fellow white Tennesseans found objectionable.
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” Jack Hurst, Chapter 33, Pg. 361
- “The rural west Tennessee town of Trenton saw racial trouble in 1874.
Two white men made themselves uninvited guests at a barbecue hosted by black residents. The host were insulted when the two men refused to pay for their dinner. It appears the two white men were fired on by the angry crowd. Sixteen of the barbequers were arrested by the Sheriff of Trenton. The posse had to defend itself from two attacks by groups of masked whites. At approximately 1:00 am, a group of masked men took the black citizens from the jail. They killed six on the edge of town. The others were never seen again. Forrest’s response to this incident was typical of the man and the attitudes he held throughout his life: ‘If I were entrusted with the proper authority I would capture and exterminate the white marauders who disgraced their race by this cowardly murder of Negroes.’”
The most clear example of this was documented by the Memphis Daily Avalanche as follows:
Memphis Daily Avalanche, July 6, 1875, 1.
“July 4, 1875 – Memphis, Tennessee -
Nathan Bedford Forrest was invited to speak by the Jubilee of Pole Bearers, a political and social organization in the post-war era comprised of Black Southerners. Miss Lou Lewis was introduced to General Forrest then presented him with a bouquet of flowers and said: ‘Mr.
Forrest – allow me to present you this bouquet as a token, of reconciliation, an offering of peace and good will.’
General Forrest received the flowers with a bow, and replied:
‘Miss Lewis, ladies and gentlemen – I accept these flowers as a token of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the South. I accept them more particularly, since they come from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God’s great earth who loves the ladies, it is myself.
This is a proud day for me. Having occupied the position I have for thirteen years, and being misunderstood by the colored race, I take this occasion to say that I am your friend. I am here as the representative of the Southern people – one that has been more maligned than any other.
I assure you that every man who was in the Confederate army is your friend. We were born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live in the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters.
When the war broke out I believed it to be my duty to fight for my country, and I did so. I came here with the jeers and sneers of a few white people, who did not think it right. I think it is right, and will do all I can to bring about harmony, peace and unity. I want to elevate every man, and to see you take your places in your shops, stores and offices.
I don’t propose to say anything about politics, but I want you to do as I do – go to the polls and select the best men to vote for. I feel that you are free men, I am a free man, and we can do as we please. I came here as a friend and whenever I can serve any of you I will do so.
We have one Union, one flag, one country; therefore, let us stand together. Although we differ in color, we should not differ in sentiment.
Many things have been said in regard to myself, and many reports circulated, which may perhaps be believed by some of you, but there are many around me who can contradict them. I have been many times in the heat of battle – oftener, perhaps, than any within the sound of my voice. Men have come to me to ask for quarter, both black and white, and I have shielded them.
Do your duty as citizens, and if any are oppressed, I will be your friend. I thank you for the flowers, and assure you that I am with you in heart and hand ‘”
Rather than looking to reinforce the onerous rewriting of factual history and continue to unjustly demonize Forrest to allow those who wish to perpetuate and accentuate division may I suggest that the most logical and commendable recommendation would be to campaign to have a bronze tablet displaying Forrest’s July 4, 1875, speech added to Forrest Park. Likely that would both coincide with Forrest’s sentiments and be supported by his descendants.
There are those who want to add a monument to Black Confederates to Forrest Park. That would be supported not only by the irrefutable facts of history, but also by the position of the National Park Service African American Civil War Web Project:
No! Fuck you asshole, This country NEEDS!! great men LIke Nathan Forrest. I wish we had a hundred of him!!!
This world needs more people like Nathan B Forrest! Libreal assholes like Obama and Hillary want this country to be like the British disarmed and weak! Look at the prison system and welfare! What group stands out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Obama or Hillary want to fix this country. The first thing is to kick the lazy ass Blacks and lazy whites that have been on welfare for 10 or even 20 years off! The goverment should not have to rasie your kids nor should welfare!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats whats wrong with Blacks today they think we owe them something1 The smartest black man I know of is Bill Cosby! He tells it like it is! He can thought because he is black. Now if a white man said the truth like he does he would be condemmed as a racist.
nathan bedford forrest was my great great great grand father yet i knew nothing about him other than his affiliation to the kkk but that wasnt true nathan forrest was a great man i i am damned proud to be related to him he did alot with his lifei ts a shame his rival got the glory sherman got the very first us tank named after him while he got labled as a bigut but just couse histery says someone is bad doesnt make it so remeber histery is written by the winners its a shame he got a bad rap but none of that nonsence meens nothing to me i will be proud of my heritige no matter how many people draghis and my name through the mud thank u for the kind words about my great great great grandfather atleast not everyone sees him as a confederate scum
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Hey, what what you conservatards do if, say, Vermont decided to secede from the Union and join Canada? Would you still sit on your couches, eating fritos, watching rasslin’? Or would you start frothing at the mouth to send in the Marines and keep those Vermonters, who you probably think are traitorous commie hippies, from declaring independence? The South committed treason against the Union, and so we burned down your cities and your farmland.