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KKK Founder Forest Gets Bad Rap
Fredericksburg (Va.) Free-Lance Star ^
| 9.9.07
| Calvin E. Johnson Jr.
Posted on 09/10/2007 7:48:32 AM PDT by meandog
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But what about Fort Pillow?
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:48:34 AM PDT
by
meandog
To: meandog
It is Forrest with two “r’s”
And he was probably America’s greatest calvary and light infantry general
He was a slave master/trader who freed all of his slaves before the end of the war.
He also founded the KKK and then ordered it disbanded.
A wide mix to go from.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:52:03 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: meandog
"Remarkable" does not necessarily mean "good" or "worthy of emulation" - it is dishonest to dragoon Sherman in as a character witness for Forrest.
Nathan Bedford Forrest had great physical courage and was a gifted cavalry commander.
He also bought and sold human beings as chattel for a living and committed war crimes.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:52:09 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: meandog
"But what about Fort Pillow?"What about it? The drunken bluebellies in the fort didn't want to surrender......so Forrest's men whipped their @sses but good.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:54:38 AM PDT
by
Godebert
To: snuffy smiff; slow5poh; EdReform; TheZMan; Texas Mulerider; Oorang; freedomfiter2; ...
To: meandog
Shame he was sore loser and a bigot.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:56:23 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: meandog
I’d give Forrest a pass before I’d give Byrd a pass.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:57:20 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Hunter 2008)
To: wideawake
"He also bought and sold human beings as chattel for a living and committed war crimes."You blue zone liberals just can't abide the fact that Gen. Forrest is widely recognized as the greatest cavalry commander in the history of mankind. He is among the Greatest Americans that ever lived.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:57:57 AM PDT
by
Godebert
To: meandog
The late, great, civil war historian Shelby Foote said there were two geniuses to come out of the civil war, Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:58:08 AM PDT
by
joebuck
To: meandog
Here in Wake Forest, NC there was a street named “Forrest Road” with 2 r’s. My parents lived there. When the Politically Correct crowd figured it out, they changed it to the current “Forest Road”.
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:59:16 AM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: wideawake
He also bought and sold human beings as chattel for a living and committed war crimes.
Each of those things can also be said of US Grant
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posted on
09/10/2007 7:59:59 AM PDT
by
uxbridge
To: BallyBill
"Shame he was sore loser and a bigot."Care to back-up that statement with facts?
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:00:02 AM PDT
by
Godebert
To: meandog
RUN FORREST RUN!!!!
To: 2banana
“A wide mix to go from.”
Indeed.
And, we really do run a grave risk when we ask people of previous times and places to somehow conform to our current moral sensibilities. For his day, under the guidelines he was told to live by, no doubt that Forrest was a moral man as well as a great military leader.
Think of it this way — Abraham (of the Bible) had slaves and a child by his wife’s slave. Such was not uncommon in those days, and Abraham is not criticized for doing those things. If he tried that today, we’d have him in jail.
To: meandog
It seems his major negative legacy outweighs the positive things he may have done. I find no reason to celebrate him. The Klan has been a disgrace to American society since its founding.
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:03:21 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(Visit the Fredquarters- Fred08.com)
To: meandog
I’m hope that D.C. and all of the other cities will also change the name of Malcolm X Blvd, Park, school or whatever, too, being that he referred to whites as “blue-eyed devils.”
To: BallyBill
Shame he was sore loser and a bigot.Yeah, but FR is a hate site, so we love him around here. /s
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:05:12 AM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: Godebert
“What about it? The drunken bluebellies in the fort didn’t want to surrender......so Forrest’s men whipped their @sses but good.”
And, allegedly, slaughtered any and all captured Union troops that happened to have a black skin (and many w/ a white skin).
I know, it’s war...
To: Godebert; wideawake
Just because wideawake differs with you, he’s a liberal?
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:07:37 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: stainlessbanner
Thanks for the post. Good article.
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posted on
09/10/2007 8:08:34 AM PDT
by
SWEETSUNNYSOUTH
(Help stamp out liberalism!)
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