Confederate political choices

[Nathanb1]

Which isn't really his fault. You could say that about Jesus, let alone N.B. Forrest.

Hush! Now we'll have people burning his albums!

[khalleron]

I guess she was also ashamed, then, of Nathan Bedford Forrest III

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest_III

OK, I clicked on the link, and I didn't see anything objectionable. Am I missing something?

Unless the insinuation is that because 'III' was an OK Dude, 'I' must have been as well?

Which is what I don't get, and why I've been contributing to this thread at all. What someone's ancestors did is *interesting* from a historical standpoint, but it's the past. What sort of persons their descendants are is wholly up to the descendants.

The whole, 'I'm an OK Dude so all my ancestors must have been OK Dudes' mindset is the pitfall of genealogical research that I see too much of.

Some of my ancestors were OK Dudes, some were jackasses.

It's true of everyone's family.

[K Hale]

I somehow have a suspicion she never heard of N.B. Forrest II OR III. III, by the way, was buried on R.E. Lee's old farm. That tells me something about N.B. Forrest III.

Arlington? (Since Lee never had a farm, I'm guessing that's what you meant.)

[ole]

Excuse me. What part of "off-topic" did y'all not understand? This was a perfectly good topic introduced in good faith to get opinions and perhaps information. If one wishes to dispute the motives of ancestors and descentants, start another thread.

Ole