[billbears]

Nathan Bedford Forrest, who killed 32 U.S. soldiers

You state that as if it is some sort of bane that should be hung around his memory. I'm sure Gen. Washington killed his share of British Empire soldiers, of which the colonies were apart of until the end of the Revolutionary War

[Grand Old Partisan]

True enough about George Washington, but we're supposed to be teaching history from the U.S. point of view, not that of Britain or Africa or Mexico. Those who praise Forrest et. al. should never lose sight of the fact that rebels in the 1860s killed 400,000 U.S. troops.