[metesky]

I have two biographies of N.B. Forrest, the greatest fighting general to come out of the Civil War and a man whose leadership qualities I much admire even though I'm a born and bred swamp Yankee.

Reconstruction was a tragedy for all involved and would have been conducted much differently had Lincoln lived.

[Monterrosa-24]

I grew up in middle Tennessee where half the towns have a historical marker with the title, “FORREST’S RAID”. He was a man of great energy in addition to his great abilities. Like Cromwell he came out of a pure civilian background yet beat professional soldiers and was in Cromwell’s words “more severe than perhaps you would have it”.