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The renovation of a monument honoring a Civil War Confederate general, who was the first "Grand Wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan, is once more creating controversy in Selma, Ala., 11 years after protesters got it moved off of public property.
Men under his command killed “in cold blood” 250 black soldiers fighting for the Union who were captured at Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Pitcavage said. “No one has ever proven conclusively that Forrest himself ordered it, but at the V
Many people ignorant of history say that Bedford was the founder of the KKK. The Klan had already been in existence for a year and a half when he was asked to assume the leadership because the people looked up to him as their hero and proven leader.
The KKK of the late 1860's bears no resemblance to the thugs and racists of the new Klan formed at the turn of the century. The Klan Forrest rode with was to fight against the Yankee scalawags and carpetbaggers who were raping the south after the war. US. Army occupation forces committed innumerable atrocities, which today would certainly be classified as international war crimes, much of it against the free blacks. General Forrest joined a citizen militia then called the Klan to protect the citizens of the South, black and white alike, from these vicious atrocities.
Under the 'true' history of the time, one of the first outings that Forrest went on with the Klan was to a black man's house who was accused of beating his wife. The black man, holding an axe, told Forrest that he 'owned' his wife and could beat her anytime he wanted to." Wherein Bedford took the axe from the man, taught him some southern manners on how to treat a lady (black or white), then told him that he had better never see a mark on the woman again.
Forrest disbanded the Klan in 1869 because its mission had been achieved. Union appointed Governor Brownlow and the viscous carpetbaggers had been defeated. Primarily because Forrest told the President of the United States that if they didn't stop stealing land and goods from Southern US citizens, abusing them, and molesting free blacks, he had the capability to start the Civil War over again. The US government was well aware that he could do exactly what he threatened to do with half a million white and several hundred thousand black soldiers standing firmly behind him.
It's based on facts not on a southern slant as some may believe.
When writing my novel on General Forrest, "Fame's Eternal Camping Ground," I spent almost two years researching information. My sources were documents from the Civil War era, military dispatches, old diaries, old newspaper articles and official government publications, just about as factual as you can get.
General Nathan Forrest was brilliant in leading charges and formulating strategies against the Union.
They are Not making a big statue of General Nathan Forrest to promote Hate as these people would have you believe. They are making the statue because he was a great man of history despite any shortcomings he may have had because he did a LOT of good for the confederate country of the South.
In fact, many say General Nathan Forrest was the first true Civil Rights Leader.
Originally posted by rbmgang
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Idk why I have a hard time believing this but thanks for sharing
Originally posted by RealSpoke
Talk about revisionist history, written by white supremacists and people that get off on pretending the civil war era is still happening.
That's only fair to a man who was a real hero to many and a great patriot.
The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with a massacre of surrendered Federal black troops by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history."[1]
. However, a Confederate sergeant, in a letter written home shortly after the battle said that "the poor, deluded negroes would run up to our men, fall upon their knees, and with uplifted hand scream for mercy, but were ordered to their feet and then shot down."[14] This account is consistent with the relatively high comparative casualties sustained by race of the defenders. (See next section.)
Conflicting reports of what happened next, from 16:00 to dusk, led to controversy. Union and Confederate sources claimed that even though the Union troops surrendered, Forrest's men massacred them in cold blood. Surviving members of the garrison said that most of their men surrendered and threw down their arms, only to be shot or bayoneted by the attackers, who repeatedly shouted, "No quarter! No quarter!"[7] The Joint Committee On the Conduct of the War immediately investigated the incident and concluded that the Confederates shot most of the garrison after it had surrendered. A 2002 study by Albert Castel concluded that the Union forces were indiscriminately massacred after Fort Pillow "had ceased resisting or was incapable of resistance."[8] Historian Andrew Ward in 2005 reached the conclusion that an atrocity in the modern sense occurred at Fort Pillow, including the murders of fleeing black civilia
ns, but that the event was not premeditated nor officially sanctioned by Confederate commanders
As far as Hitler goes, he's the only man I know who was able to stand up to the Zionists bankers who bankrupted Germany and led his nation in a few short years to prosperity again under his new system ( this was before the war corrupted him) He was a great man and patriot at that time and for those things he should be well remembered.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
As far as Hitler goes, he's the only man I know who was able to stand up to the Zionists bankers who bankrupted Germany and led his nation in a few short years to prosperity again under his new system ( this was before the war corrupted him) He was a great man and patriot at that time and for those things he should be well remembered.
Well that explains it, you're a Hitler apologist too. Not going to bother wasting my time talking to you.
The only black mark on his war record was alleged to be the Fort Pillow incident, where he was accused of killing unarmed black soldiers. History completely vindicates him of this unfair charge. Although some incidents did occur at Fort Pillow, they happened before Forrest arrived and he was absolutely furious. The action that triggered those incidents was the cowardly running away of numerous white Union soldiers who left the black Union soldiers to defend the fort. The tenacity and pride of the black soldiers (with their white officers) would not allow them to surrender which made the men of Colonel Chalmer's unit mad, resulting in some depredations.
Immediately after the war, Bedford Forrest returned home with the 'free' black men who fought with him. Sixty-five black troopers were with the General when he surrendered his command in May 1865. Forrest said of these black soldiers, "No finer Confederates ever fought."
Originally posted by ComeFindMe
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Yet you use Wikipedia as a source in your first comment here.
The other source is a home-spun website that just so happens to support your view - which you are completely taking at face value. That's up to you, but don't then slate people who reference genocidal acts as being suckers for the 'official story'.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
These people are so sick! Why would you honor a guy that murdered women, children, and people for just being black? The guy who created the KKK. This is the equivalent to building a Hitler shrine.
This is at a PUBLIC state owned park, NOT private property. The USA is so backwards. Thank god I live in the north.
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Originally posted by Nana2
those people DID beleive that desegregation and so forth would be the death of whites. It almost has been, look at the schools which are predominantly black.
Originally posted by Nana2
White students having to be "dumbed down" for the sake of blacks.
Originally posted by Nana2
The KKK has just as much a right to their beliefs as anyone else does.
Born July 13, 1821 in Tennessee, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a self-taught man who made his fortune as a cotton planter in Mississippi. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he raised a calvary and fought with distinction at Shiloh. As a major general, he massacred 300 black men, women and children at Ft. Pillow in 1864. After the war, he became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.