Should Confederate War Memorials/Statues Be Abolished?
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Pretty sure his home is a museum in Biloxi.
I think I saw a sign for it there.
Ahhh.... Tear it down. It is waterfront, build another casino.. Just bring in the dredger barge, reroute highway 98 thru the hood... and christen a new riverboat.
Home state!? She was born in Pennsylvania.Whatever. Top journalist there.
Regarding Nathan Bedford Forrest... that cat's tactics were studied ad nauseam at West Point and implemented in WW1 and WW2 with mechanization. Probably the greatest Calvary general ever. He was feared up and down the Union lines. Even Lee called him "the Devil himself".
I have a few posts here from years gone by.... way before Taylor ever mentioned it.... all about him and whether or not TN should disown him. He was brutal. History's verdict is still out on the Fort Pillow Massacre. Odds are he did it.
Home state!? She was born in Pennsylvania.Whatever. Top journalist there.
Regarding Nathan Bedford Forrest... that cat's tactics were studied ad nauseam at West Point and implemented in WW1 and WW2 with mechanization. Probably the greatest Calvary general ever. He was feared up and down the Union lines. Even Lee called him "the Devil himself".
I have a few posts here from years gone by.... way before Taylor ever mentioned it.... all about him and whether or not TN should disown him. He was brutal. History's verdict is still out on the Fort Pillow Massacre. Odds are he did it.
Yep. There is no question that the south had the superior cavalry units, mostly because they could not really advance and occupy much northern territory so they excelled at hit and run raids. Jeb Stuart to be counted first and foremost along with Nathan Bedford Forrest, although Forrest of course was a general so had the greater overall impact.
My own great great.g..grandfather was with the 2nd Maine Cavalry and was shot at the Battle of Port Hudson (Louisiana). The nothern cavalry units tended to operate more as mounted infantry, where they would mount up when "they were positively, absolutely needed overnight" and then dismount and fight as infantry. That was the plan anyway, until you ran into a southern cavalry unit.
Of course it is interesting and also somewhat sad to think that many, many of the commanding officers on both sides knew each other from their West Point days. Similarly, in the Revolutionary War many of the soldiers had also fought in the French and Indian War earlier, when they were British colonists. Then had to fight units headed by their former commanding officers who were still with the British. Not pretty.
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So did the commies. They rolled their artillery from town to town to blow up the Orthodox Churches. Pretty much what is still going on in the mideast- including with the destruction of Coptic Churches in Egypt by the muzzies.
Its a good thing for Isis Forrest is no longer with us.So did the commies. They rolled their artillery from town to town to blow up the Orthodox Churches. Pretty much what is still going on in the mideast- including with the destruction of Coptic Churches in Egypt by the muzzies.