[nathanbedford]

By all means, vote your conscience. It is not your conscience I am trying to subvert but your mind which I am trying to change.

As to general Forrest, I refer you to my about page and suggest that he might be more open to realism, especially at the end of his life, than the common understanding of his biography suggests.

At any rate I cannot imagine Nathan Bedford Forrest walking into a polling booth muttering to himself, "I'll show you, I'll kill me."

[BlackElk]

I took the pleasant trouble to review your homepage on the subject of Nathan Bedford Forrest. I looked hard at how you would handle Fort Pillow and I think you did a very fair and well-informed job of handling that. Forrest was, in most respects, a very fine man who was neither perfect nor some plaster saint but a very fine cavalry officer who earned the right to be feared by his Union foes.

That having been said, I cannot imagine Nathan Bedford Forrest, if he were alive in our time, casting his ballot for the likes of Romney.

I also agree with your preference for Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson, perhaps the finest battlefield military commander and one of the very finest men that this nation has ever produced.