Posted on 08/12/2007 11:13:36 AM PDT by CutePuppy
Thanks, good information.
Of General Forrest, I think we can say that he tried hard to do what he thought was right. If he sometimes failed to do so ... so do we all. If he was sometimes wrong about what was right ... so are we all.
NBF - Probably the best fighting General in American History!
fyi, 4 of the 5 members of MY family, who were UNfortunate enough to be "guests of the DAMNyankees" at PLPOWC, were MURDERED on their 1st day of "confinement" because they were "other than white persons".
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inasmuch as a LARGE percentage of the MILLION Americans KILLED during the war were "persons other than white" (the DY army "freed" many slaves from being ALIVE!), this seems a REALLY high price to pay for 5-10 years of "freedom" for the remaining slaves.
otoh, the war from the dixie view was about FREEDOM;from the unionist side it was about $$$$$$$$ & keeping the south PERMANENTLY subservient to northern commercial/financial/manufacturing/railroad interests.
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Thank God for Forrest bump.
I think the prime motivation for start of the Civil War was the abolition of slavery on the Northern side, not wanting to be pushed around on the Southern side.
Once the fuse was lit, neither side was capable of backing down. Yes, the Civil War did far more harm than good; the freedom (from the most benign form of slavery in human history) for some was purchased a huge price in blood and treasure. And the effect of reconstruction was to harden attitudes and incite racial animosity.
Interesting thought, which I have never encountered or considered before.
Some times require preventive actions to save many people or even mankind from death, ruin and madness (like 1930’s), some may require just the opposite - patience and pressure - to accomplish the same. It’s wise people who can see the distinction and make the right decisions.
Thanks for very interesting discussion and lots of historical facts on this thread.
I never knew Forrest had many blacks serve under him and not all were supply or quartermaster corps.
he offered pay and emancipation to his own slaves who agreed to serve under him
his reputation as a Simon Legree is utterly false.
I’ll be glad to debate Ft Pillow with any Neo-Abolitionists here too if they would like and we can do it strictly with Federal accounts
furthermore, lincoln, the TYRANT, said "in his own hand" that he would assure passage of a Constitutional Amendment to "preserve slavery where it now exists forever".
the FACT is that they SHOULD have cared, but the free persons (of ANY race) mostly did NOT!
after it seemed that the voters were about to toss lincoln out in '64 and/or GB & France were about to recognize the CSA,then & ONLY then did the needLESS war become a "crusade against slavery". otoh, the north did NOT plan to free their slaves, but rather only those in dixie. it's called HYPOCRASY!!!
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Who made this statement or who's opinion is it? I suppose that whoever it was had evidence or firsthand knowledge as to what they were saying. How about a link?
The quote above is certainly NOT proof that he was a member of the KKK. And if he actually made the statement the radical reconstruction congressional investigation in 1871 could not have found as they did, with Forrest's exoneration.
"The reporter should have asked him if he had ever belonged to the kkk."
Actually he did and is in the body of your post. According to the interview he stated I am not, but am in sympathy and will co-operate with them."
I think you are right. And slavery ended peacefully everywhere in the west except Haiti and the U.S.
"The quote above is certainly NOT proof that he was a member of the KKK. And if he actually made the statement the radical reconstruction congressional investigation in 1871 could not have found as they did, with Forrest's exoneration."
Should have read: The quote above is certainly NOT proof that he was a member of the KKK. And if Forrest actually made the quoted statement in context as to why he disbanded the KKK the radical reconstruction congressional investigation in 1871 could not have found as they did, with Forrest's exoneration, as the interview, according to you occurred in August, 1868."
not a bad post....these days..
thanks
Recall the Dred Scott decision in which Judge Tannery in his concurrence offered the ex judicio opinion that the government of the Northern states had no right to prohibit slavery and invited a challenge by a prospective Northern slave owner. This galvanized the Northern electorate into voting in the candidate of the heretofore obscure antislavery Republican party.
Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, Harper’s Ferry and the election of Lincoln were the long fuse that set off a most avoidable and unnecessary war.
Even with it all, perhaps, perhaps, if that hothead Edmund Ruffin had not fired the first shot on Fort Sumter on his own initiative, the War might have been avoided.
Most of the problems that are with us today, trace to some extent, to the Civil War.
They constructed the buildings from green lumber during the summer. The lumber shrank during the winter and thousands died of exposure during the severe Ohio winter.
Nice. But it would help if the guy knew how to spell barbecue.
otoh, the criminal acts of the "filth in blue uniforms" at PLPOWC, Hellmira & Camp Douglas (the 3 MAIN DEATH CAMPS)were INTENTIONAL, premeditated, war crimes.
rape, sexual assaults, torture, denial of medical attention, denial of sufficient food, denial of shelter & coldblooded MURDER were COMMONPLACE.
a letter order from a union officer at PLPOWC states that any guard shooting or bayoneting a prisoner "without cause shall be fined the sum of ONE DOLLAR"!!! (emphasis MINE)
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