1 posted on
07/20/2007 6:24:10 PM PDT by
SuzyQ2
To: SuzyQ2
If I remember rite he killed 13 men in "Hand to Hand" combat Had 29 horses shot out from under him,,,wounded 8? times, He led from the front...
2 posted on
07/20/2007 6:35:32 PM PDT by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: SuzyQ2
1. Slave trader
2. Democrat. (Convention delegate in 1876)
3. Killer. Committed civil war atrocities.
4. KKK Member. Was responsible for spreading the orginization thoughout ths south.
Tactical genius, moral monster
3 posted on
07/20/2007 6:40:44 PM PDT by
Realist05
To: SuzyQ2; wardaddy
“The firstest, with the mostest.”
Funny part is he rarely had the “mostest”, but he made up for it with audacity just like R.E. Lee.
14 posted on
07/20/2007 7:31:31 PM PDT by
Pelham
(Johnny Sutton, saving drug smugglers from the Border Patrol)
To: SuzyQ2
Best cavalry comander: General Phillip Sheridan, Chief of Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, fought more classic mounted cavalry battles, won them all. He destroyed JEB Stuart's command, killing Stuart. He also captured Missionary Ridge and large amounts of prisoners and supplies. He gutted the Shenandoah Valley, routed Early, forced Lee out of Petersburg, and cut off Lee's escape from Appomattox, forcing Lee to surrender.
Forrest was very capable but the Army of Virginia and the Shenandoah valley were the heart of the Confederacy and that's where the Civil War was fought and lost by them.
My other candidate would be Gregg who ran JEB Stuart out of Gettysburg.
20 posted on
07/20/2007 7:49:11 PM PDT by
gandalftb
(Blessed be the Lord that teaches my hands for the war, and my fingers to fight. (Sniper Jackson))
To: SuzyQ2
“War means fighting. And fighting means killing.”
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
To: SuzyQ2
Not all of his men loved him, his subordinate, Captain Andrew Gould, shot Forrest. Forrest then stabbed him to death with a knife.
So much for confederate gallantry.
Forrest was in constant conflict with superiors and subordinates and was a raider, mainly. He was demoted many times, ordered the massacre of all the Black prisoners at Fort Pillow.
If he hadn't paid for his mounted battalion with his own money from slave trading, he likely would have never had a command.
25 posted on
07/20/2007 8:05:38 PM PDT by
gandalftb
(Blessed be the Lord that teaches my hands for the war, and my fingers to fight. (Sniper Jackson))
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Ride with Forrest!
Dixie Ping
To: nnn0jeh
56 posted on
07/21/2007 8:58:00 PM PDT by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: SuzyQ2
My great-grandfather’s brother, a Virginian, fought under Forrest. He was killed at Fort Donleson, the only battle Forrest lost.
90 posted on
07/22/2007 9:34:49 AM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
To: SuzyQ2
Even if I’m cautious with Wikipedia...
I’ll go with their assessment of Forrest’s legacy as “mixed”.
But I’m glad you put up this thread because it got me to read his “Farewell
Address” to his Confederate soldiers.
That is one heck of a great departure speech, especially for the side
that had to accept a loss.
103 posted on
07/22/2007 1:17:54 PM PDT by
VOA
To: SuzyQ2
180 posted on
07/24/2007 10:23:18 AM PDT by
advertising guy
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