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A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford ForrestA Winner of the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal
By Lochlainn Seabrook - Signed by Request only
Illustrated - Hardcover - 822 pages
General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brave and ingenious Confederate officer who won all but one of the battles he led; a philanthropist who gave generously to family, friends, and charities; and a humanitarian who not only spared the lives of numerous Yankees on the battlefield, but who freed his slaves years before Lincoln reluctantly issued his fake and illegal Emancipation Proclamation. And unlike our liberal sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, who purposefully delayed abolition, hindered black social and political advancement, and campaigned throughout his life to have all blacks deported out of the U.S., after the War conservative Forrest crusaded to bring new African immigrants into the South—with full civil rights.
No one would know any of this by reading the typical works on Forrest, however, nearly all… Read More