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btw, GEN N. B. Forrest said of his MANY Black cavalrymen (and other sorts of CSA veterans), "No better rebels ever drew breath. Those sable lads were magnificent fighters."

don't you wish you hadn't "opened this can of worms", as it makes you look IGNORANT of WELL-documented, incontrovertible, FACTS????

as i've said numerous times of you (and of the lunatics of the "DAMNyankee coven" on FR), "you know NOT & know NOT, that you know NOT".

cobra, you REALLY should go do some reading, from REPUTABLE source documents, about the war & stop reading the secondhand LIES, propaganda & evasive drivel out of northeastern, REVISIONIST, LEFTIST academia. you'd look smarter, thereby.

free dixie,sw

and of course you don't have a link to anything you are going to tell me that Nathan Bedford Forrest once said.

and You'll never have any links, you'll only tell me to get educated and go read some book that you once read in a library but no one else can find it or any history of it in the very library you said you read it in.

btw, GEN N. B. Forrest said of his MANY Black cavalrymen (and other sorts of CSA veterans), "No better rebels ever drew breath. Those sable lads were magnificent fighters."

As usual, Wartie gets it wrong. Forrest did indeed praise the blacks who were part of his unit, but he never said they were "magnificent fighters," What he said, and what is often quoted in discussions of black confederates, is "Those fellows never left me...and better Confederates did not live."

Now note the ellipses there. It's very interesting that the vast majority of times that line is quoted, those ellipses are there. But what was left out? It turns out, upon some deeper digging, that what he said, in full, was "These fellows never left me, drove my teams, and better confederates never lived." So there it is. No magnificent fighters. No black cavalrymen riding alongside Forrest and shooting it out with the yankees. Just more teamsters and another Watie lie exposed.