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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (339536)	6/5/2007 6:54:08 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1571724

ted had to go dig something up from a blogger to counter the facts? the facts are in the congressional record to counter the lib's BS predictable...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (339536)	6/6/2007 1:09:50 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571724

Although he was accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow for having led Confederate soldiers in an alleged massacre of unarmed black Union troops, the accusation was later disproven by an 1871 Congressional investigation. That is wrong.....the investigation was never that clear cut. In fact, there is no question that a great number of Union blacks and whites died at Fort Pillow. What's in dispute is how they died. There were some claims that the blacks were crucified and hung on tent poles while the white soldiers were killed after they had agreed to a truce and were unarmed. I am sure there was disgenuousness and exaggeration on both sides but then Forrest was a militant and aggressive man who liked to win. In 1869, Forrest, disagreeing with its increasingly violent tactics and specifically disagreeing with violent acts against Blacks, ordered the Klan to disband, stating that it was "being perverted from its original honorable and patriotic purposes, becoming injurious instead of subservient to the public peace." Many of its groups in other parts of the country ignored the order and continued to function. The intent of the KKK was to rid the south of northern carpet baggers and uppity Negroes. While it was expected that the Klan would use violence in some cases to make that happen, Forrest did not realize to what degree of violence would be used. When there were lynchings all over the South, he wanted out. Before the war, Forrest had been a very prosperous slave trader. In other words, Harris's hero was the purveyor of human flesh.