Forrest, Nathan Bedford

[TerryB]

It's a good speech and I'm glad he made it; however, I bet somebody wrote it for him. It's not exactly in his down home style.

 

[unionblue]

It's a good speech and I'm glad he made it; however, I bet somebody wrote it for him. It's not exactly in his down home style.

TerryB,

You might be right, but I would like to believe that if he didn't write it, he did mean it.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

 

[truthckr]

I would suspect that he stated his words and Mary refined them into this speech. Just a guess, but she was always by his side.

 

[diane]

That sounds like a newspaper man might have gussied up the speech some. Forrest wasn't Jethro Bodine but he wasn't Cicero, either! However, he did have that sentiment. At one reunion he looked at the US flag with tears in his eyes and said, "I love it as I did in my youth, and I think you do, too."

 

[TerryB]

TerryB,

You might be right, but I would like to believe that if he didn't write it, he did mean it.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

I think he absolutely meant it. He had a sense of honor that many moderns who criticize him don't have.

 

[BillO]

And the unspoken sentiment that was shared by the target audience. " If we some some contrition maybe the sob's will go home."

 

[diane]

After the battle of Selma and receiving word of Lee's surrender, Forrest and his good friend/aide Charles Anderson, took a ride. Forrest had his arm in a sling and a bandage around his head, having taken several saber cuts in the last battle. They spoke about the future, about the state of things, whether Forrest should follow other rebels to Mexico. And, they arrived at a fork in the road. Anderson asked which Forrest wanted to take. "If one road leads to Mexico and the other to hell, I don't care which I take," replied the general.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I'm glad to see this thread "bumped" to the front page of the forums again !

It gives me an opportunity to let the new members know, much more information about Bedford Forrest can be found in his own forum:

https://civilwartalk.com/forums/nathan-b-forrest.176/

 

[UCVRelics]

Wyeth could write another book from the work you have done with the NBF forum.

 

[Tin cup]

Wyeth could write another book from the work you have done with the NBF forum.

Might want to find another author, Wyeth's take on the Bragg/Forrest so-called "confrontation" is questionable fiction, makes one wonder what else he made up.

Kevin Dally

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Wyeth could write another book from the work you have done with the NBF forum.

Thanks Man !

That's a tremendous compliment, but the credit goes to @diane.

She's the Forrest expert.

 

[Rio Bravo]

At a dinner party during the war, a Gentleman asked Forrest:
"Why is it that your hair has turned gray & yet your beard has remained dark?"
To which Forrest replied:
"Probably because I tend to work my brains more than my jaws !"

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

At a dinner party during the war, a Gentleman asked Forrest:
"Why is it that your hair has turned gray & yet your beard has remained dark?"
To which Forrest replied:
"Probably because I tend to work my brains more than my jaws !"

I've always loved that !