Nathan Bedford Forrest had great physical courage and was a gifted cavalry commander.
He also bought and sold human beings as chattel for a living and committed war crimes.
You blue zone liberals just can't abide the fact that Gen. Forrest is widely recognized as the greatest cavalry commander in the history of mankind. He is among the Greatest Americans that ever lived.
Each of those things can also be said of US Grant
Prove it....the Federals absolved him as did the Union commanders at Ft Pillow who survived...their drunken at the time commander did not.
as for slavery, we'll let's just toss out everyone in recorded history till the late 1800s who had any hand in it.....it will be a small exclusive club left that you can cheerlead for
What war crimes?! Show me PROOF that he did.
You can’t. A congressional investigation totally cleared him of ANY alleged war crimes.
(More Yankee Southern-hating BullSh*t!)
Bravo Sierra. Robert E. Lee considered him a gentleman and his finest general.
While he did participate in the slave trade (condemned any yankees lately), he refused to break up families, nor would he sell a slave to a cruel master. He offered 45 slaves their freedom if they fought with him - regardless of the outcome of the war - 44 were with him at the end.