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To: stainlessbanner
Thanks for the ping SB I believe it was Shelby Foote, who said the civil war produce two genius’s one was Abe Lincoln, and the other was General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
102 posted on 07/22/2007 1:09:51 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Thanks for the ping SB I believe it was Shelby Foote, who said the civil war produce two genius’s one was Abe Lincoln, and the other was General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

It was Shelby Foote.

He also said the Civil War could be defined by the two madmen that bracket it.

John Brown, and John Booth.


139 posted on 07/23/2007 12:09:05 PM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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