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The citation is accurate.

Try pulling this like I did: http://dabcc.nmsu.edu/info/labs/lab85/chicagop.pdf

It is a white paper written by Ned Bishop citing eight sources that include Foote and Forrest himself.

Forrest was a crude tyrant, a hot head, a Black (other than slave) hater, who was never accepted by other Confederate gentlemen officers. He led by his command presence and force of personality. He was uneducated in military tactics, administrative leadership skills.

Bloodthirstiness was his only qualification. He was a man for his times.

Then there was the battle at Brice's Cross Roads. Another day.

[Badeye]

‘The citation is accurate.’

Don’t dispute that statement. As I noted - and you didn’t respond to - you selectively quoted. You omit the exoneration completely.

Like I said, you can’t get away with that with those of us that own the ‘narrative’ trilogy.

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An interview of August 28, 1868, for the Memphis Commercial, inserted in the record, quotes him as saying that he took forty-seven slaves into the army and that forty-five of them were surrendered with him in 1865. In direct testimony he said there were forty-five of the teamsters and he gave free papers to forty-four of them in 1863, eighteen months before the war ended.

-Arlin Turner, George W. Cable's Recollections of General Forrest, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 21, No. 2. (May, 1955), pp. 224-228.

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Nathan Bedford Forrest, apparently, became quite upset about the tarnishing of his image and replied to General C.C. Washburn, the Union Commander at Memphis, concerning the charges in a letter dated June 23, 1864

". . . I regard captured negroes [sic]-as I do captured property and not as captured soldiers . . . . It is not the policy nor the interest in the South to destroy the negro [sic]-on the contrary, to preserve and protect him."

Forrest goes on to state:

". . . Since the war began I have captured many thousands of federal prisoners, and they, including the survivors of. . .Fort Pillow. . . (black and white), are living witnesses to the fact that we do not mistreat prisoners of war."

- The Negro's Civil War in Tennessee, 1861-1865, Bobby L. Lovett, The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 61, No. 1. (Jan., 1976), pp. 36-50.