diane
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- Jan 23, 2010
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Will Carry, you'd like investigating Lionel Booth, which isn't his real name but he was a real soldier. I've always held the opinion that Booth would have treated with Forrest when that was offered - Forrest really did not want to fight the battle if he could win the victory otherwise. He gave more than a couple opportunities for catastrophe to be averted. No way to know, of course, but I believe Booth would have taken him up on the terms and there would have been no controversy. Fielding Hurst's Worst and Bradford's infamous troops frequently operated out of Ft Pillow and they were not liked by any means in the neighborhood. Bradford had plenty of reason to use Booth's identity rather than his own - if Forrest had known who he was really dealing with, he would have done things quite differently and, yes, there would have been blood but not as much of it.