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Just finished reading, "That Devil, Forrest." After the war, did Forrest ever meet Sherman?
I read Jack Hurst' s biography and Hurst did not mention it. Hurst did mention that a group of Union Army officers shortly after the war did visit Forrest at his home much to the violent opposition of King Philip who Forrest had to calm down. Forrest was certainly willing to bury the hatchet in the sense that although he headed the KKK he was not willing to continue the war to establish an independent Confederate nation.Just finished reading, "That Devil, Forrest." After the war, did Forrest ever meet Sherman?
They may have conversed again when Forrest came to Washington to testify about the klan to Congress.
Sherman and Forrest were "two peas in a pod" because they were senior military commanders and had very similar experiences. Sherman was famously friends with Joe Johnston, and developed a close relationship with John Bell Hood, as well — both Confederate commanders who had faced him directly across the lines. They understood Sherman, and he understood them; there was mutual respect in those relationships. As we have discussed previously, the vilification of Sherman largely came about years after the war, in part because of Jefferson Davis' memoir. It was an outrage that was carefully crafted and nurtured a generation after the war ended.Forrest offered his services to Sherman, who wrote the War Department a glowing recommendation of Forrest’s capabilities. It’s probably because Sherman and Forrest were two peas in a pod, falsely lionized by their “accomplishments” in the Civil War, who seemed to fare better against the unarmed than the armed.
for a man who had little formal education nobody on either side could read topography like him and he uses this to his advantage many times.It is interesting that after the Civil War, both men sought to team up together when war looked likely to occur with Spain over Cuba in 1873. According to Eddy W. Davison, Forrest offered his services to Sherman, who wrote the War Department a glowing recommendation of Forrest’s capabilities. It’s probably because Sherman and Forrest were two peas in a pod, falsely lionized by their “accomplishments” in the Civil War, who seemed to fare better against the unarmed than the armed. They are two reasons we seem to have unresolved post-Civil War issues.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-...rd-forrest-civil-war-criminals_b_7552816.html
The conversation the Virginia paper related was a chance encounter. Sherman was on his way upriver to Memphis from Vicksburg, and Forrest boarded the steamboat somewhere in Bolivar County, the county just below Coahoma County where he had his plantation.
@diane, do you know the name of this Riverboat ?
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