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Forrest "ate babies'
Here's a brief story you might enjoy:
One morning, according to a story apparently handed down through the Forrest family, he was in his hotel room, still in his nightshirt when a knock came at the door. He told Willie to answer it, and the opened door revealed an austerely dressed woman carrying a Bible and an umbrella. She moved past Willie into the room where the just-rising Forrest, hair still sleep disheveled, was seated on his bed. "Are you the Rebel General Forrest?", she is reported to have abruptly inquired. "And is it true you murdered those dear colored people at Fort Pillow? Tell me, Sir, I want no evasive answer." The answer she reportedly received was so direct that it was remembered to have sent her screaming down the hallway into the street. Rising from his bed to his full six feet one and a half, the Butcher replied:
"Yes, madam. I killed the men and women for my soldiers' dinner and ate the babies myself for breakfast."
from Lytle page p. 381 as transcribed by Jack Hurst in his Nathan Bedford Forrest, A Biography
Here's a brief story you might enjoy:
One morning, according to a story apparently handed down through the Forrest family, he was in his hotel room, still in his nightshirt when a knock came at the door. He told Willie to answer it, and the opened door revealed an austerely dressed woman carrying a Bible and an umbrella. She moved past Willie into the room where the just-rising Forrest, hair still sleep disheveled, was seated on his bed. "Are you the Rebel General Forrest?", she is reported to have abruptly inquired. "And is it true you murdered those dear colored people at Fort Pillow? Tell me, Sir, I want no evasive answer." The answer she reportedly received was so direct that it was remembered to have sent her screaming down the hallway into the street. Rising from his bed to his full six feet one and a half, the Butcher replied:
"Yes, madam. I killed the men and women for my soldiers' dinner and ate the babies myself for breakfast."
from Lytle page p. 381 as transcribed by Jack Hurst in his Nathan Bedford Forrest, A Biography