Posted on 08/08/2010 4:20:05 PM PDT by BigReb555
The 44 were Gen. Forrest’s own slaves. The other 21 were black troopers, either freemen or slaves that volunteered to ride with Forrest.
Of course they were.
OK, say it. The entire testimony given by Forrest in your opinion is a lie. So tell me, what do you think was his motivation to lie? I believe his health was deteriorating at the time of his testimony also, is that the reason?
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Get off that pony, son...He's done went lame.
"These boys stayed with me.. - and better Confederates did not live."
"We may differ in color, but not in sentiment Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict."
General Forrest
"There is little hazard in predicting that in all localities where the enemy have a temporary foothold, the Negroes, who under our care increased sixfold ... will have been reduced by mortality during the war to no more than one-half their previous number." Jefferson Davis
If you blue bellies cared so much for the slave ?
Speaking of Jefferson Davis, did you know he had an adopted black child living in the confederate white house? In 1864, when Mrs. Davis was returning home in Richmond, she saw a black boy being beaten by a black man. Outraged, she immediately put an end to the beating and had the boy come with her in her carriage. He was cared for by Mrs. Davis and her staff. They gave him clothes belonging to the Davises’ son, Joe, since the boys were of similar age. He said his name was Jim Limber.
Jim was with the Davises when they were forced to abandon Richmond before the Union Army captured the city in April 1865. When the Davises were captured by Union forces in Irwinville, Georgia, on May 15, Jim was separated from them (kicking and screaming). Mrs. Davis often tried to find him after the war, but the family never could find out what had been done with him and where he was.
Such a sad story...
The Jim Limber myth, we've all heard it.
I didn't say that Forrest was lying, merely pointing out how his testimony of 44 slaves with him got bumped up to 65 in the next paragraph by who ever authored your Lost Cause site. But Southron tales do tend to grow in the telling, don't they?
You, sir, have proven yourself to be a bonafide idiot. If you had kept quite nobody need have known.
Btw, your personal opinion means nothing in the face of documented fact, just in case you didn’t know. :)
Exaggeration? He made the prediction but what evidence was there that it became true? It would mean that half the slaves liberated by Union forces would have died. I'm not aware of anything that would support that.
If I had kept quiet then people might have come to the mistaken conclusion that you knew what you were talking about, and that all your Southron myth was fact. Take your Jim Limber fairy tale. 'Adopted child' my foot. Both Davis' wrote postwar books. Both mentioned their children in their books. Do you know how many time either one mentioned Jim Limber? Not once. Kind of crappy treatment for an 'adopted son', wouldn't you say? Not a single mention? How do you explain that?
Btw, your personal opinion means nothing in the face of documented fact, just in case you didn’t know. :)
When you produce documented fact then I'll worry about it. Up to know it's been the usual rebel nonsense.
L.O.L !!!
Shall we start with your great "emancipator" ?
Not if this thread is any indication. Y'all have managed to repeat most of the major rebel myths pertaining to blacks in the confederacy so far. But the total store of Soutron BS is considerable, so there are many other tales for you to tell. Have at it.
So, what do you suppose...retread or sockpuppet?
He was indeed mentioned in Mrs. Davis’s 1890 memoir. Thanks for proving yourself an idiot again. You are so funny. Lol! Thanks for the laugh. You really should quit being a doofus.
Kinda like your new hero, Obama....Caring about his brother in Kenya..
"Free them all, and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition? I think I would not hold one in slavery, at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not."
"I have said a hundred times, and I have now no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and interfere with the question of slavery at all."
ROTFLMAO!!! Let’s see, Lincoln wanted them free and Lee and Davis wanted them as slaves. Lincoln believed whites were superior, Lee and Davis believed whites were superi0r. Golly, it’s hard to find any rebel moral high ground in that.
None of [Lincoln’s] public acts, either before or after he became President, exhibits any special tenderness for the African race. On the contrary, he invariably, in words and deeds, postponed the interests of the blacks to the interests of the whites, and expressly subordinated the one to the other. When he was compelled, by what he deemed an overruling necessity, founded on both military and political considerations, to declare the freedom of the public enemy’s slaves, he did so with avowed reluctance, and took pains to have it understood that his resolution was in no wise affected by sentiment."
Without Further Ado, Saint Abraham:
"the people of Mexico are most decidedly a race of mongrels. I understand that there is not more than one person there out of eight who is pure white."
Negro equality! Fudge! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougism
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