Dead Confederates, A Civil War Era Blog

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Reconstructed

Posted in Memory by Andy Hall on May 26, 2012

Nathan Bedford Forrest is today more popular than ever among the fans of the Confederacy. More than any other Confederate officer, Forrest is the modern face of the unreconstructed rebel, the pit bull of the Lost Cause.

The real Nathan Bedford Forrest was anything but that.

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  1. SUP said, on May 31, 2012 at 9:32 am

    Stupid

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