Rare: Nathan B. Forrest Interview. (The Civil War Diaries S4E27) 

Good point

General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Gentleman Scholar of the Old South

Only thing missing in mem-town is the tree-vines.

He did order the KKK on a killing spree in Memphis led by Judge Julius JJ Debose. !t was estimated more than half the black population fled permanently.

@@dwightdowson9259 haha. He was the furthest thing from a scholar. He was uneducated.

Thanks! That was likely my fault as I was having a hard time making it out when I transcribed it from the news article. Working on another Forrest interview for next weeks upcoming episode, hopefully I’ll get it all transcribed right this time!

Hoorah! My Brother... Hoorah!

​@@BirdDogg No problem, BirdDog, mistakes happen to ALL of us. And, my sincere THANKS to You for being so kind to reply as You did.

@@BirdDogg You're welcome. Can't wait for the next interview of Gen. Forrest!

Forrest certainly wasn't any worse than every one of the thugs in the inner cities

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Well said, Mark. Very well said!

Only "those people" feared him; the ones Gen Lee referred to that were yankees.

He was a high ranking member of the earliest form of the KKK. Anyone honoring him shows who, and what, they really are.

No. History records two sides of the man. 1) Those from the politician that was Forrest with five newspapers drumming up local support for him. 2) Those that remember him for his brutality. As for military genius any competent leader could do so with his advantages. Forrest had all the advantages and no of the disadvantages of a typical command. You could take any Tom Dick or Harry that was a rich braggart and put him in the same scenario and succeed. 1) Operate in a vast friendly area that readily provided supplies, intelligence reports, and recruits. 2) Attack small groups to gain military supplies. 3) Ignore orders from superiors, refuse to communicate with peers or other commands nearby. Take soldiers from other commands as your own.

@@scottgoens7575 Your opinions, feelings and emotions are not facts.

@@-sunstar9778 Not opinions at all. Forrest is a polarising character. you love him or hate him. Everything I have said is taken from books on Forrest. True events. I'm sorry I exposed the ugly underbelly to you... it's a jagged pill to swallow for you.

@@scottgoens7575 Delusional minds are a sorry state.

@@-sunstar9778 thus have you labeled all who see merit in Forrest.

Forrest spoke like the uneducated man he was. Much that was written correspondence was done by life long aid-de-camps as his writing was worse still.

The political solution was the only solution. The South lost the war.

...the constitution and Amercan ideals were applied to them? I spoze, ...so long as your melanin produced a skin tone passing as white.

And on top of that,there is proof they were good people. Unlike Sherman and Lincoln.

@markivy3451 Oh my. I have seen plenty of evidence to confirm an influx of antisemitism. But, I surely did not expect a resurgence of your kind of hate. I'll pray for you.

@@Zionist_Eternal i didnt say anything hateful,there is proof lincoln and sherman joked about the southern whites and slaves sherman killed on one of his reports to the office. There is proof robert e. Lee was a gentleman and proof nathan b. Forrest was trying to help the south. Carpet Baggers came from up north after the war. Proof is there. Your the hateful none knowing of the facts by name calling. Do a deep dive,lincoln also wanted to ship all blacks back to africa. Of a program yes that was already started. Much Much more that the school system lies about.

Lincoln's war & those RADICAL Republicans. Now we have RADICAL DEMORATS to contend with.

Forrest was safe as long as he remained east of the Mississippi river. Any campaign between 1860 through 1865 involving "Little Dixie" (Arrow Rock), Forrest's cavalry would have been decimated (Quantrill, James, Youngers, Bloody Bill ,George Todd, etc)

you mean the war Lincoln waged against the racist traitors

So, Lincoln fired 💥 on 🇺🇸 Sumter❓️ 🤔

I always just say, ending slavery was the result of the civil war, not the cause.

@@BirdDogg that would have been a lot easier to type ! 😂

@@Alan-in-Bama with all the rage I get daily in the comments, I had to find shorthand 😂🫡

@Alan-in-Bama Your comments were among the most cogent I've ever read on this subject (with the possible exception of my own)! Bravo!

Slavery was the biggest and most controversial issue at the Constitutional Convention. Too many Reps wouldn't budge on the issue, so it couldn't be banned. An agreement WAS made that within 20 years (1807) no more slaves could be imported from Africa. In 1861 the Confederate states also put that same ban in their Constitutions. Only 5% of Southerners owned slaves. Jews owned 63% of the slaves in USA according to every Census. It was Jewish slave traders, Jewish slave buyers and Jewish money that was responsible for the cruel project of flooding the Americas with Africans. Please see in Wikipedia the bios of Aaron Lopez, DeWolf and Judah P. Benjamin. The European Jewish bankers (the George Soroses of their day) created and financed the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) to agitate for slavery and against the North. They were very active and set the attitude of the Southerners to be very pro slavery and against the North and the radical, uncompromising abolitionists. The South was primed by radical agitators. Czar Alexander II in 1862 sent his Foreign Minister to visit Lincoln. He stated that "Without a doubt" the European bankers were behind the rebellion in the South. The Czar sent his Navy to NYC and San Francisco, threatened war against England and France if they intervened. Four years later terrorists started setting bombs off in St. Petersburg, Russia, killing many officials and bystanders, finally killing Czar Alexander II. This caused the Pograms. Virtually ALL abolitionists, including Lincoln, wanted slaves freed and then immediately sent to somewhere else. Lincoln worked on this project and got Congress to appropriate $$millions for the project. Lincoln had Chiriqui, Panama in mind. If Lincoln had not been killed the Freedmen would likely have been colonized elsewhere and America would be blessedly almost entirely free of the scourge of having Africans in America.

The best General on either side and possibly the best ever. Extremely smart and made two different fortunes.

Nicely stated.

Stay tuned, another great Forrest interview is coming up in next weeks episode!

so not a racist...and he sold slaves.....wow

So he wasn't a racist but was one of the 6 Confederate generals who founded the KKK . Forest boasted that he had 550,000 klansman under his leadership . The KKK brutalized and terrorized southern blacks, and any whites who showed any sympathy for the black ppl . Some hero smh

And a cruel man .

shame he was fighting in a war to keep slavery

A lot of his men were former slaves. His. And they rode with him. His TRUTH is often hidden by those whom twist history.

​@@st3019How so.

​brentinnes5151Lincoln turned it into that to keep Britain & France from supporting the South. Learn something someday

True

Nope. People are more than willing to disenfranchise groups that disagree with them. Men and women have a whole party that hate the constitution in the states and federal level. Men have to be constantly vigilant to those who would be "scalawags" and "carpet- baggers." Today men couldn't talk like this and not get a knock on the door from any alphabet, unconstitutional agency. That is a difference of the times.

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​@@BirdDogg...👍

AMEN, my Brother, Amen!

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@@BirdDogg I look forward to it.

Yes….and before he killed that young man he growled “No man kills me and lives!” Ole Forrest was a fearsome dude.

Thank You for Your very accurate Comment. Gen. Forest was indeed a highly intelligent born Warrior. His men all admired Him, and he always treated the well and fair.

​@@marianmoses9604 Amen, my Brother, Amen!

​My apology, Marrian, I should have said, "AMEN, my SISTER, Amen!"

29 shot from under him, and he killed 30 men in personal combat. He finished the war "a horse ahead."

He was a raider, he performed poorly in the standard Cavalry mode.

@@scottgoens7575, he performed in the manner that produced victorious results instead of "straight jacketed West Point antics and modes"!

@@wdb3110 He didn't communicate with anyone while in battle, except for what was in front of him. His superiors and peers never knew his intentions or the enemies dispositions. He was given independent command because of this tunnel vision trait for battle that could never number more than 7,000 men. Fighting in friendly territory with numbers on your side against second rate officers that were occupation garrisons is like wrestling a 10 year old... the outcome is never in doubt and isn't comparable to the main army.

we need that !!!

Thank You, Wayne. That was very well said. I am a born and bred New York City Yankee, but in my heart and soul, I am a Son Of The South. I love the South, and I love the great Southern People. I'm a Vietnam Veteran (US Army 505th PIR 82nd Airborne Division). While in the Military I was in a Platoon that was made up of mostly Southerners. From them, I learned some of the History and Culture of the South. And, I swear to You, these Southern Paratroopers were some of the damn Bravest Men I have ever seen! They became like a second Family to me. Now, I have traveled all over the South, and I realize that in my heart, I Am a Proud Man of the South. There is just something so Strong, Honest, and well Cultured about American Southerners that is deserving of admiration. Again, my sincere THANKS to You, Wayne. Your Comment was Spot On.

@@georgewilkie3580 Jesus man, that was so moving I just rubbed one out to Patsy Cline.

You just want the Confederacy back.

@@rinlo1424 And?

Mine is named Pickett (he’s apt to charge even when it’s reckless)

@@BirdDoggAre you gonna make a video glorifying Oskar Dirlewanger next ?!

@@st3019 For clarity, I present documented history, I don’t have to glorify anything, that part is baked into the cake before I ever slice it.

Yes Sir!

Agree

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​@@BirdDoggThanks in advance! Love your channel ❤️

@@-sunstar9778 appreciate ya!

There is no rest in hell...

@@scottgoens7575 heaven

I agree, as a Copperhead from New England who lived for 20 years down South and married a great North Carolina lady. Btw, one typo: punching "bag".... You can edit it by clicking on the three dots. :-)

You are so right. The South was held down for over 100 years. In some ways it is still happening.

Not to mention the unleashing of the 13%, which has devastated countless lives and ruined entire cities.

No thanks. I’ll pass.

UNFORTUNATELY, it will continue to go down, this country has already been turned over to a reprobate mind

@@desertdetroiter428 Nobody asked you

@@desertdetroiter428😂😂 The hedonist and immoral would say that...

@@IronCavalier I’m pretty damn anhedonic according to most people. My mark is asceticism. I’ve always been on the straight and narrow and I’ve never needed your white Jesus to remain that way.

Don't believe nonsense. Do you justify the Democrats by saying that the Republicans weren't pure? I see. That sums it up. However, no doubt people of the time were more complex than any writings could properly describe. That includes writings from their day and ours.

And old Karl wrote Abe a letter congratulating him on getting re-elected in 1864.

​@@keittkatranch5167Wow! Thanks for the fact!

​​@@keittkatranch5167as an interesting side fact, ole Abe & his radical party grabbed power much FASTER than ole Adolph & his radical party.

I do not believe Lincoln favored Marxism. He said we are all created equal he believed in Freedom and thus freed the slaves. He did not believe the elite should rule over the people

Valhalla??

He is there with the first is the most is

and so do those he massacred at Fort Pillow

​@@brentinnes5151 so do those *who were killed when they refused to surrender at Ft. Pillow.

he cries from hell...

It’s called “dude, where’s my horse” and seems to be the one thing everyone can agree on in my videos 😂

intelligence and literacy are two different things. He could read but needed clarification, he could write but had an aide-de-camp perform that for him throughout his life.

Exactly. It’s all media lies and propaganda to keep us divided. A divided people are easier to control.

He was certainly a racist. He just made an effort to keep a civil tongue in print.

@@dang328 He choose black soldiers to ride and work with him and said there were no soldiers better. He loved black people. His actions were not of a racist and to accuse him of such endangers you in violation of the 9th commandment. May God have mercy on your soul. Repent!!!!!

@@lecil2 he sold slaves... he loved black people who were in their place as laborers. You see this sentiment often in the old south. Our old slave so and so was a member of our family and we loved him. Nowhere will you see him make the statement that the negro is the equal of a white man. Use the brain God gave you.

@@lecil2 he sold slaves, fought as a Confederate soldier, was one of the first supporters of the ku klux klan. I hope sense finds you soon sir.

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It’s available online, just search Nathan Forrest fort Pillow interview and it should come up for you.

Thank you.​@@BirdDogg

I’m not sure I’ve heard that one. I do know he spoke at the pole bearers association(an all black organization) encouraging integration and equality, and that he once offered the governor to personally chase down a group of white men who had killed some blacks.

Not in the 1890's. He was dead by then

@@lonniemonroe2714 Indeed, Oct. 29th 1877.

​@@lonniemonroe2714 Yeah, just looked it up. He died 1877, Oct 29. He did have a son, William Montgomery Bedford Forrest llll. I hope someday I will find that story again and reread it. Interesting: Forrest City, AR located on the western slope of Crowley’s Ridge near the center of St. Francis County, has been a center of commerce and trade since its incorporation in 1870. Serving as the county seat since 1874, the city is named in honor of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. It is the only such named city in the world spelled with two Rs.

Don't know about the wifey quote, have read though that only man N.B.feared was his brother, Ezekiel😮

@alanmoberly64 Alan, you have wisdom which is supposed to come with age, but unfortunately that is not always the case.

All children should be taught to listen carefully to their parents and grandparents. Also how to discriminate wisdom and good advice from BS and brainwashing. As a Baby Boomer, all that most of us ever got was the last two! Parents should know to listen to the wisdom of Grandparents. Especially when it comes to raising children.

@@PeterLaughton I was in my thirties by the time my children came along. I raised them with as much wisdom as I could. Unfortunately it seems every generation has to go through its hard knocks to find out maybe dad was not wrong.

sad

Well you’re in luck, this isn’t a historical documentary, it’s an audio dictation of a historically documented interview, supplemented with available pictures of the subject matter. As it were, the original photo is sepia toned and does little for the quick visual necessary for a successful thumbnail whereas the colorized versions available pop. Creating these videos takes quite a bit of time away from my actual job and as I am also in the midst of trying to build a home(my first at nearly 50 years old and I decided to build it all literally myself) out on the coast, some seven hours away from where I now live in Appalachia, I do the best I can with them. I think if you have a quick glance around the 500 or so some odd videos I’ve produced for the channel, it will become apparent relatively quickly that I have done a little more than a cursory study of the civil war. I do look forward to seeing your content however, do keep me posted as to when you get around to creating some.

God bless Captain Willam Anderson to

That’s a mouthful. With that said, the end of slavery was the result of the war, the cause was money. Slavery was a legal practice at the onset of the war and remained so for many northern and border states throughout the war including, Vermont, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland Kentucky and Missouri(some of these even retained slaves after the war.) Once the war had begun, the north fully controlled the congress. Why was a law or amendment not passed by them? As to reconstruction, for my money, educating the slave population and integrating them into society with some tangible skills even if it took longer, would have been far more preferable than simply turning them out from the plantation, uneducated, unemployable and unwanted by the northern masses (racism was equally as present in northern states before, during and after the war and in fact today, in modern society, the highest number of racist hate crimes occur in New York and California.) Jefferson Davis actually had a plan with his brother Joseph to do just that and all of the slaves from his plantation were educated at the college level, self governed and went on after the war to form the first all black town in America, mound bayou. I for one find it exhausting that people are still so obsessed with denigrating the dead while attempting to erase documented historic realities, replacing them with talking points all while crying over documented history being shared and preserved… Those ancestors of yours from the south, they very likely did not own slaves but likely either marched off to war to protect their family, friends and community or were possibly some of the nearly 400,000 confederate troops (more than half of the entire confederate army) who were conscripted under the threat of death. There are nuances to war and to the casual historian those nuances are often neglected. Will history deem you and I as savages who separated families at borders, bombed innocent women and children, provided weapons of mass destruction to foreign nations to feed our unending consumerist greed all while digitally opining on our moral superiority through devices created on the backs of child and slave labor? I mean, America is doing it. We’re Americans right? Remove the nuance and we are left with no alternative future. I wonder if there will be statues for the virtue signal warriors. Doubtful.

@@BirdDogg you are correct there was a lot of nuance involved in the lead up to the war I understand that racism was not exclusive to the South Andi know all off what you said about Jefferson Davis in regards to The treatment and education of his slaves is true does not change the fact the were still enslaved. And I have done an incredible amount of genealogy and know that the reason my ancestors fought was for there home it does not change my view that they were on the wrong side and that secession was wrong. The war between the states was a terrible time in the history of this country but at the end of the day I'm glad it's still this country and then it's not the Confederacy and the Union to separate countries. I'm a descendant of Henry Clay the senator that with every ounce of his being held the union together. And Jefferson Davis probably treated his slaves much better than Henry Clay did because he treated his fairly poorly.

@@BirdDogg In what Northern States was Slavery legal? Border States are Southern Slave states. For Congress in those particular Slave (border) states to pass Bills into Amendments takes time and reparations for the slaveholders to be discussed. It didn't happen overnight and with a war going on other economic necessities took front burner.

@@scottgoens7575 Well, technically the emancipation only freed slaves in states that seceded(which, in that they had seceded was sort of a moot point.) One example I can list off the top of my head is New Jersey who kept slaves until 1866.

@@Heavydutyrocknroll I don’t disagree with any of that

I’m thankful that the war brought them further into the fold of America and afforded them the opportunity to thrive in this country. I think a lot of people assume that in my documenting history I favor one side or the other of the debate when in reality, I am just grateful and in awe of the sacrifices all of these men made, white, black and everything in between to afford us the opportunities we have today. I appreciate you dropping in with an open mind. Be well Mark!

Stay tuned, another great Forrest interview is coming up in next weeks episode!

@@BirdDogg Most commenters would prefer a response to their comment.

@@aguy559 Well, it is a response. The upcoming video continues to exhibit Forrest’s command of the language. I get hundreds of comments a day though on the 500 some odd videos I have on the channel, I can’t respond in long form to all of them but I do however pop in from time to time between my increasingly hectic work schedule (I work about 16 hours a day editing for not only my real work(producing safety compliance videos for the government) but also trying to improve the quality of the videos I produce here and continue to try and create growth for the channel in the hopes that it might continue to supplement my efforts at building my first home completely myself(learning to build a house at nearly 50 yrs old on property seven hours from where I currently live 🤦🏻‍♂️ ) At any rate, I’m hustling hard and do my best to reply in the few moments a day a grab my phone to see if RU-vid has buried my content again or if anyone is alive out there (it’s lonesome here editing and my dogs are terrible conversationalists.) ok, back to work for now. Thanks for popping in and for sharing your thoughts

@@aguy559 Did you not really want a response?

@@BirdDogg Did you delete my initial reaction comment out of misguided over-caution or was it RU-vid AI this time? It's getting hard to tell these days and I'm sick of it; leaving yt due to the constant deleting of comments. YT is an enemy of free speech and that is NOT acceptable in any way. Hope you will post your interviews on R .. (um) ... -- ble, where I am shifting all of my video watching hours. Thank you.

Out of the Saddle Forrest was a compassionate man. He would even visit the Union Wounded Soldier's and made sure his men and prisoners heard a Sermon on Sundays. His men captured a Union Minister. Forrest sent for him and the Preacher thought he was going to get killed. Forrest asked him to say Grace and have dinner with him and his Officers. Forrest after a while after letting the Union Preacher preach Forrest took the Preacher back to Union Lines. Forrest told him as much as we like your preaching the sinners on the other side need you more. Please Google Forrest's Speech to the Independent Pole Barers which was the Foundation of the NAACP. Forrest said that there have been many things said about me. There are Black and White Men here that served with me before, during and after the war that will tell you those things aren't true. Forrest's Funeral Procession was over 2 miles long. Over 3,000 Blacks came to show their respect for the Great General that did so much for them after the war. Forrest was a victim of Propaganda because he was causing havoc on the Union.

I’ve always viewed him as a man of practicality.

You got that right my friend God save the South CSA forever

Do you mean slavery should be legal?

@@RAV1953 Slavery was legal in the Union and lasted longer in Union States then Southern states

The south lost. The poor ignorant people followed the treasonous southern “politicians“ and ,the folks from the south suffered greatly during this war. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?

@@RAV1953 Whites didn't invent slavery, whites ended it world wide. Although if the south would have won integration wouldn't have been forced at gunpoint ultimately getting to what we have today. A degenerate and declining civilian.

Uploading it without it blocked got the video blocked, had to scramble to re-upload. It happens to the channel all the time. Oddly my recent WWII videos have all been getting blocked and I have to re-do them.

@@BirdDogg yes, I figured it was RU-vid, they can show blood and guts on some things and the progressive overly sensitive woke generation just can’t handle real life and real history. Thank you for what you do , it was an amazing video❤️🇺🇸

In fairness, politicians are most often the downfall of any military operation, not the soldiers. With that said, the union had more than twice the soldiers of the confederacy.

@@BirdDogg So you blame Jefferson Davis? The relationship between the Political Commander and the Strategic Commander is as follows: The Political Commander spells out the political goal. The Strategic Commander is responsible for devising the plan to achieve that goal. (This is why Lincoln and McClellan never worked... McClellan disagreed with the political goal. Turns out McClellan was wrong. Lincoln and Grant were in synch the results bare this out.)

@@scottgoens7575 Davis was all over the place and he certainly didn’t help what would have been an uphill battle regardless. A protracted war, dwindling resources, varying degrees of communication or lack thereof, they had their work cut out for them even if they were bowling 300 and they weren’t.

@@BirdDogg I agree Davis didn't help, but then neither did Lee. A protracted war was the CSA Strategy with bloodshed pushing peace policy of the political north to cease. Getting back to Lee, he had one job and that was to keep his Army intact. Frontal assaults depleted the mighty ANV to a shell of itself in less than two years. The resources were there (beans and bullets) in was the supply system that was civilian controlled that failed the CSA. The CSA had hamstrung itself on states rights preventing the CSA government from taking control.

@@scottgoens7575 I think Lee’s heart was only half in it. He didn’t care about slavery and I think he would have preferred to keep the union, he however, like many of that time were more loyal to their family, friends and communities. Lee felt that pressure to remain loyal to Virginia.

Secession is not a right by the Constitution. The only way a state can secede is with the vote of all states represented in Congress. They can't just walk out and quit because the going got tough. Attacking Federal troops started the war...

@@scottgoens7575 The Articles of Confederation had a provision stating 'a perpetual union'. The Constitution was prepared under the pretext of amending the Articles. To form under the Constitution did not require all states to leave the Confederation but only 9 (from memory). What does that tell you? It tells me that the STATES determined their sovereign. So, having formed it, they could leave it. Lincoln was wrong and knew he was wrong. He needed the slavery issue to give him a high minded reason for killing 1.2 million men. Saying the war killing over a million men was justified by one fort being attacked is silly. As is said, follow the money. The war was economic. The trade tariff North versus the free trade South. Lot of money is made in a war. Why wasn't Jefferson Davis and other CSA officeholders/legislators not prosecuted after the war? They knew they would lose.

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@@brentinnes5151 supwize ma'am.

Trump is a buffoon and rich boy. Forrest was self made and a warrio

and trump started the civil war...and ww2!! yeah!!! you go girl!