Posted on 09/30/2014 6:22:22 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
I’m not sure where you got your information but the Ku Klux Klan was formed in Pulaski Tennessee in 1866 and, although not a founder, Forrest served as it’s first Grand Wizard starting sometime in 1867 and continuing until 1969 when he resigned and ordered the association dissolved.
Doh!
A point of fact, He died at age 57 - way too soon.
Exactly
Nathan Bedford Forrest. First Grand Wizard of The Ku Klux Klan.
And they hated not only blacks but Catholics(which I am) and Jews. The Boy Scouts they weren’t.
Thank you for this thread. Lee considered Forrest to be his best General.
Not soon enough.
If I had been a soldier in the moment I would have done my damnedest to kill him. But it’s been 150 years and I dislike holding grudges.
The thing about NBF is that he never had the opportunity to study warfare but was a natural. He rose from private to general - and became one of Lee’s most respected go-to guys. The Fort Pillow Massacre will always be troubling to me but I think that, in general, he served honorably.
There are printed stories about Rommel hiring somebody, in the late 1930s, to drive him to all the major battlefields that Bedford commanded in, so Rommel could see why NBF deployed his troops the way he did.
There was a book called “ driving Rommel” I thumbed through in BAM a few years ago about this. Don’t know if it was a fictional tale or not.
Heinrich Himmler was never a soldier either rockrr but he rose to the occasion.
Paragraphs are our friends.....what unreadable tripe.
General Forrest never served under General R.E. Lee during the war. He did serve under Lt.General Stephen D. Lee in 1864.
All of General Forrest’s Confederate service was in the Western theater of the war.
PERMANENT CONSTITUTION
Of The
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
Adopted By The
CONFEDERATE CONGRESS
March 11, 1861
“We, the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity - invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God - do ordain and establish this constitution for the Confederate States of America.”
Richmond:
Printed by James E. Goode
Forrest would have known what to do with a keyboard warrior-punk like yourself, jmacusa. LOL! :)
After the US Civil War was over, General Robert E. Lee was asked by a reporter who his favorite General was.
General Lee replied: “The man I never met, Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest.”
According to historians, Forrest was the only man, on either side, to rise from Private to General.
A natural Warrior, Forrest had many successes on the battlefields often against Union forces much larger than his. The best example occurred near Rome, Georgia.
One quote attributed to Forrest is as true today as it was back then:
“The winnah of the battle is the one thet gits thar the fustest with the mostest!”
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