I might add that Nathan Bedford Forrest approved and praised black soldiers that fought under him as well.....Quote?
Did he say anything like this:
"When you give the Negro these rights, when you put a gun in his hands, it prophesies something more: it foretells that he is to have the full enjoyment of his liberty and his manhood."
A. Lincoln
Walt
Prior to the war the only thing that Nathan Bedford Forrest had to say about black men of his acquaintance was something like, "Sold to the gentlemen in the blue coat."