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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (339613)	6/6/2007 9:34:07 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571647

Do understand that the history on Forrest was rewritten by the South during the 1890s, when they were romanticizing the "War of Northern Aggression" to justify the introduction of segregation, lynchings, and denying blacks of the right to vote. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (339613)	6/11/2007 7:15:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571647

Ted, before today, all I knew of Nathan Bedford Forrest was from the movie Forrest Gump. Like Jim said, there's a lot of historical revisionism. Seems like Marie Antoinette isn't the only one whose portrayal in history is under constant change. Its more likely that Forrest was glamorized by the South rather than demonized by the North. He was a slave trader; as a profession, that was one or two levels above today's drug smugglers. Professions like that usually don't draw men of character.