[shahadi]

Originally Posted by jivemi

OK, but OTOH Forrest later disassociated himself from the Klan and even made a speech for racial reconciliation. Likewise accounts of his role at Fort Pillow--where most probably some or most surrendering colored troops (and a few whites?) were massacred--may have been embellished by a Congressional committee looking for atrocity stories. Recall the Greek writer Aeschylus' maxim that "The first casualty of war is truth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan...ck_Southerners

http://the-american-catholic.com/201...athan-bedford-
forrest-and-racial-reconciliation-part-ii/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Pillow

On the KKK:
He was “Grand Wizard” until he ordered the dissolution of the organization.

There is none can revise the accounts of his uncanny feel for battle and exemplary use of his command. But, there are too many that wish to rewrite a history glossing over certain acts of debauchery and others of disreputable character. The city of Memphis recently voted to remove his statue from public lands, culminating from the wicked murder of nine Christians while praying in a Charleston South Carolina church at the hands of Dylaan Roof based on Roof's penchant for the Confederate battle flag.

Bedford's order to "charge 'em both ways" at the battle of Parker's Crossing is as salient as Chesty Puller's famous assessment, "we're surrounded, that simplifies our problem."

This forum is about military tactics within the context of our game. Often, we stray into unintended matters. That devil Bedford Forrest may be one of those stray matters.

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