Posted on 07/29/2020 11:15:42 AM PDT by lowbridge
Give me a break! The Rat party can have a Klan Grand Kleagle or whatever they are called, and honor him so so much, and that’s somehow OK?
Sherman, in 1864 said of Forrest, “I’ve got to get Forrest if it takes ten thousand lives and breaks the treasury.”
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They say you can learn a lot about a man from what his enemies say about him. Union General William T. Sherman, who called Forrest “the very devil” for his success against Union troops during the war, also referred to his former enemy as “the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side,” a man who “had a genius of strategy which was original, and to me incomprehensible.”
They say you can learn a lot about a man from what his enemies say about him. Union General William T. Sherman, who called Forrest “the very devil” for his success against Union troops during the war, also referred to his former enemy as “the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side,” a man who “had a genius of strategy which was original, and to me incomprehensible.”
NOTE: Attribution for the above was unintentionally omitted.
It is from an article written by Scott Morefield in Townhall on 6/22/20.
Honestly I don’t know what they were celebrating, I was not there. My comment was more a reflection of how Forrest has become a KKK boogie man of the left and how his later life is ignored.
There must be many, many, many pictures of democrats honoring and schmoozing up to Sen. Robert Byrd. Some smart freeper should start a page dedicated to the great love affair between the dem party and Sen. Byrd.
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