Apparently you need a history lesson.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest
"Forrest is also one of the war's most controversial figures. Although he was accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow for having led Confederate soldiers in an alleged massacre of unarmed black Union troops, the accusation was later completely rejected by a 1871 United States Congressional investigation."
"After the war he was alleged to have participated in the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Despite rumors that he was the first Grand Wizard of the Klan, the Congressional investigation of the Klan in 1871, which included several former Confederate generals, undertaken by Radical Republicans concluded that Forrest did not found the Klan, was not its leader, did not participate in its activities and worked to have it disbanded.
there was NO massacre. period. end of story. further, the REVISIONISTS who tell that pack of LIES, know that they are lying.
frankly, that accusation was a KNOWING,PREMEDITATED pack of LIES, promulgated by a bunch of radical REVISIONIST,south-HATING, arrogant,LEFTIST, DAMNyankee, bigots out of the northeastern, "poison ivy league screwls".
furthermore,the "pack of lies" it DENIGRATES the BRAVE & LOYAL service of the Black Union soldiers, who "fought to the last breath" for their side.
next, when GEN Forrest was in the KKK (briefly) it was to be a GUERRILLA FORCE to fight the DYs, who were in the south;land after the WBTS. there was NO "racial component" to the organization at THAT time. when the General discovered that the RACISTS had taken over the group, the General VERY PUBLICALLY left it.
free dixie,sw
“Gee, the guy that Black Flagged Ft. Pillow and started the KKK was a real nice guy after all?”
He must have been or my ancestors wouldn’t have served under him. :)