Posted on 06/24/2015 6:26:29 PM PDT by Bronzy
A bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and an early leader in the Ku Klux Klan, sits in an alcove outside the Senate chambers at the Tennessee statehouse.
Photo: Dave Bouche – The Tennessean
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This has become a witch hunt. Pathetic. It is a diversion. A lib dog and pony show.
Commanded unit of the 20,000 black confederate soldiers of which he called “second to none”
Can you direct me to some creditable information on this unit? First I’ve heard of it. Thanks.
AND...he was an ancestor of Forrest Gump.
NEVER, EVER give in to liberal demands because they have a never ending list of them.
Maybe this one is before Mount Rushmore.
This is the same Nathan Bedford Forrest who was a delegate from Tennessee to the New York Democratic national convention of 4 July, 1868?
They’re already screaming to change the name of Lake Calhoun in Minnesota and I’m sure Calhoun county Michigan will find its way to the list eventually.
I think someone should also rename Russian Hill in SF.
Meanwhile, down in Jacksonville, they did manage earlier this year to force the school system to remove Forest’s name from a high school here.
Quick internet search turned up this. I haven’t checked the cited source; you might wish to do so:
“Col. Parkhurst’s (Northern) Account of Forrest’s Black Confederates: “The forces attacking my camp were the First Regiment Texas Rangers, a battalion of the First Georgia Rangers … and quite a number of Negroes attached to the Texas and Georgia troops, who were armed and equipped, and took part in the several engagements with my forces during the day” (Lieutenant Colonel Parkhurst’s Report (Ninth Michigan Infantry) on General Forrest’s attack at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, July 13, 1862, in Official Records, Series I, Vol XVI, Part I, page 805). “
Shouldn’t everything in West Virginia that has the name of Robert Byrd be taken down? Byrd was a Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan. He was as much of a racist, as the Confederate Flag, supposedly supports in the South. It was hard for Byrd to endorse Obama to be President.
these malcontents sure didn’t give the Charleston families any time to grieve. What a class-less bunch.
..They’re already screaming to change the name of Lake Calhoun in Minnesota and I’m sure Calhoun county Michigan will find its way to the list eventually...
This is spreading faster than a virus that creates a plague of the undead.
Correct.
Never accept their argument.
Never give in.
It’s an Alinsky means to an end
Obama must be ecstatic
Hell he might even give Mooch a ride.....
Nah....,not that happy
Looks like the series can be downloaded here:
https://archive.org/details/warrebellionaco17offigoog
Or you can search by volume and page at the Cornell site
I have a feeling that the takeover of this country by islam and sharia law will be just as fast and catch everyone by surprise just like this.
HE’S A WITCH BURN HIM
this will be a good test as to whether or not the Tennessee legislators have any intestinal fortitude. (that’s “guts for you from rio linda)
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