Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot by Lochlainn Seabrook ISBN 13: 9781943737055

Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American PatriotBy Col Lochlainn Seabrook 120 pages. DESCRIPTION: Nathan Bedford Forrest's critics have called him everything from a violent backwoodsman, illiterate redneck, and cruel slaver, to a crooked politician, unfaithful husband, and simple-minded hillbilly. However, traditional unreconstructed writers, like Southern historian and award-winning Tennessee author Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, know that General Forrest was none of these things. In fact, he was quite the opposite, as is revealed in Colonel Seabrook's classic work: Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot.As we learn in this enlightening little book, far from being an inhumane slave owner and trader, Forrest granted most of his servants their freedom even before Lincoln's War. Others he enlisted in his own command (half of dozen who served as his personal guards), then emancipated them in the fall of 1863 - the same year Lincoln issued his "military measure," the fake and illegal… Read More

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