Did Furious Forrest Really Threaten Bragg's Life After Chickamauga ?
Closer look at historical sources sheds doubt on whether infamous Chattanooga confrontation ever occurred.
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Kevin Dally
One will never know for sure.Did Furious Forrest Really Threaten Bragg's Life After Chickamauga ?
Closer look at historical sources sheds doubt on whether infamous Chattanooga confrontation ever occurred.www.historynet.com
Kevin Dally
I do not believe the confrontation happened.One will never know for sure.
Little did anyone know there would be a way to dissect the facts 150 years later. And it still doesn't occur to people their words can be looked at under a microscope...so thanks for the article. We keep using that microscope and we'll eventually sort as much legend from fact as possible!
If Forrest had told me that he was going to kill me, I would have certainly taken it as a serious proposition indeed.
if you told Forrest you were going to kill him
You're still at it aren't you. Just for the record I do believe the confrontation happened.I do not believe the confrontation happened.
If evidence (other than "He said" that "He said") was out there, it would have come to light by now. The myth of the confrontation is something some just refuse to give up, because it makes Forrest look bigger, than he really was.
Kevin Dally
WHAT are you accusing me of? You have a problem towards me I don't know about?You're still at it aren't you. Just for the record I do believe the confrontation happened.
Did Furious Forrest Really Threaten Bragg's Life After Chickamauga ?
Closer look at historical sources sheds doubt on whether infamous Chattanooga confrontation ever occurred.www.historynet.com
Kevin Dally
I think that many members here who like myself are of the pro-Confederate "persuasion" historically speaking, therefore traditionally hate Braxton Bragg and conversely worship NBF and want desperately for Cowan's account to be true - but Alas! I tend to also be skeptical. When it was repeated as a "quote" by Forrest in a less-than-scholarly book I recently reviewed here https://civilwartalk.com/threads/co...-fought-them-by-john-richard-stephens.160636/ I cited its inclusion as an example of the work's general unreliability.WHAT are you accusing me of? You have a problem towards me I don't know about?
Kevin Dally
Forrest did take an extensive furlough after Chickamauga
This is very interesting !There is a mention in, IIRC, the Dyer diary (a member of Forrest's escort) of a rumor that Forrest was going to join a Confederate privateer.