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To: SuzyQ2

1. Slave trader
2. Democrat. (Convention delegate in 1876)
3. Killer. Committed civil war atrocities.
4. KKK Member. Was responsible for spreading the orginization thoughout ths south.

Tactical genius, moral monster


3 posted on 07/20/2007 6:40:44 PM PDT by Realist05
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To: Realist05

And the man who should have been second in command of Confederate forces after Lee.


4 posted on 07/20/2007 6:45:38 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: Realist05

We could use a few more of him. Moral purity is not possible. Are you willing to lose in order to find a general that passes muster with you, or the ACLU?


5 posted on 07/20/2007 6:46:26 PM PDT by Defend the Second (Let Me Get This Straight: Illegal Invasion is OK, but Legal Expulsion is Not?)
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To: Realist05; SuzyQ2
Tactical genius, moral monster

I can forgive him for 1, 3 & 4...

Seriously, though:

To put some perspective on General Nathan Bedford Forrest

My thought on the matter is that those who wish to put down those like Forrest and Robert E. Lee these many years after the fact would have never dared to speak such things to those men's faces...

7 posted on 07/20/2007 6:48:41 PM PDT by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: Realist05
Democrat?

I think a young Robert Byrd rode with him.

Long Live Sherman!

11 posted on 07/20/2007 7:19:35 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Realist05
Committed civil war atrocities.....moral monster

This isn't about Wm T Sherman.

15 posted on 07/20/2007 7:33:10 PM PDT by Pelham (Johnny Sutton, saving drug smugglers from the Border Patrol)
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To: Realist05
There is one redeeming factor to General Forrest. He knew when the war was over unlike a lot of Freepers.
24 posted on 07/20/2007 7:55:53 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: Realist05

I think you need to learn more about him. He was a very complex person with little education. For instance, he used to tell the slaves that he was selling to “go find their future owners.” The slaves would go out and find out from other slaves who were the best masters and come back and tell Forest who they were. Forest would then, negotiate a agreeable price. The slaves got resonable owners, the owners got slaves that would not seek freedon, and Forest got a profit with little work. In fact some of his slaves staid with him after the civil war, after they were freed. He was not a saint, but he wasn’t evil either-a very unusual man. That he was “as hard as wood pecker lips” would be an understatement. There are several very good books about him.


34 posted on 07/20/2007 9:35:38 PM PDT by fini
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To: Realist05

1. Slave trader
2. Democrat. (Convention delegate in 1876)
3. Killer. Committed civil war atrocities.
4. KKK Member. Was responsible for spreading the orginization thoughout ths south.

Tactical genius, moral monster

Yes to all.


122 posted on 07/23/2007 11:43:30 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Realist05

“Tactical genius, moral monster”

You stated “the mostest with the briefest.”

A military genius to be sure, but even judged by the standards of his own time, this man was personally a brutal slave trader of the lowest order.

He wasn’t fit to shine Robert E. Lee’s boots - or those of a great many other southern heroes.


233 posted on 07/31/2007 9:54:30 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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