[Repairman Jack]

Nathan Bedford Forrest and James Ewell Brown Stuart win by a mile.

[BlueLancer]

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Just a note about the present . . . . General Buford's great-great-nephew is a State Senator in Kentucky and is running for Congress in the 6th District this fall as the Republican nominee.

http://www.bufordforcongress.com

[skeeter]

"[Buford is] one of the best officers of [the Union Cavalry] and is a singular-looking party... a compactly built man of middle height, with a tawny mustache and a little triangular gray eye, whose expression is determined, not to say sinister. His ancient corduroys are tucked into a pair of ordinary cowhide boots and his blue blouse is ornamented with holes... notwithstanding this get-up, he is a very soldierly-looking man. He is of a good natured disposition but not to be trifled with."

Col. Theodore Lyman

[Bedford Forrest]

Buford, described by a Yankee colonel as "decidedly the best cavalry general" in the Army of the Potomac

Doubtless, but that is a far cry from having been the best cavalry commander on either side, during The Recent Unpleasantness.

[4CJ]

A pair of generals on the marker were Buford kin. His half brother, Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, also fought for the Union. Their cousin, Gen. Abraham Buford, donned Rebel gray.

A senseless war, one against the freedom of self-government.

Forrest and Stuart were far better.

[eyespysomething]

bump

[Rise of South Park Republicans]

Another forgotten Civil War soldier

"Yes, gentlemen good day. And we shall see you on da BattleField!"

[LincolnLover]

I'd like to see Buford's boys mix it up with NBF, that's for sure.

Sure, the guy was a white hot racist and helped to start the KKK---which, admittedly, has nothing to do with his skills as a calvary commander---but for a man with no formal military training, Forrest was spectacular.

Love the story of how he disengaged from the last skirmish of Shiloh: scooping up a Union soldier and using him as a shield against a hail of Union bullets as he galloped away.

[SunkenCiv]

just a tiny little ping.