Who Was Nathan Bedford Forrest?

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  • @SouthernGentleman
    @SouthernGentleman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    “Let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.” - Nathan Bedford Forrest

    • @iagreebut4839
      @iagreebut4839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's quite the quote. Perhaps you can share a source to us curious folks?

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Arnold.O. I agree, but books.google.com/books/about/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest.html?id=1LIvYI_ER5kC

    • @krazypotatofiend6933
      @krazypotatofiend6933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He also set all his slaves free because he feared he would be called to prison
      Also he formed the KKK and slaughtered blacks and un armed men
      Lol?

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Krazy PotatoFiend Wrong! He disbanded the kkk with General Order One. 6 other men founded the kkk. Get an education

    • @iagreebut4839
      @iagreebut4839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SouthernGentleman Thank you, my friend! It surprised me he became a better fella after his KKK days.

  • @c.coleman2979
    @c.coleman2979 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Jim Hoobler is a good historian, but it was 30 horses shot out from him; he also personally killed 31 men during the war: he later commented that he came out of the war "a horse ahead." Love him or hate him, NBF had a way with words.

    • @debralegorreta1375
      @debralegorreta1375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      a way with evil too.

    • @kenclayton5088
      @kenclayton5088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The bestest and the mostest

    • @Tfly33
      @Tfly33 ปีที่แล้ว

      He also had a way with the KKK, he was a clown and a disgrace to the human race

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Run, Forrest run!

  • @mikephillips8538
    @mikephillips8538 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Make another Nathan Bedford Forrest statue and put up around the property somewhere.

  • @Fixingtodraw
    @Fixingtodraw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Tennessee wasn’t divided in its allegiance to the American Confederate government.
    Besides Union General
    Ulysses S Grant owned 4 slaves.
    Let’s eliminate that hypocrite from our history as well.
    Mrs. Grant wrote in, The Personal Memoirs of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant: “We rented our pretty little home (in St. Louis) and hired out our four
    servants to persons whom we knew and
    who promised to be kind to them. Eliza, Dan, Julia and John belonged to me. When I visited the General during
    the war, I nearly always had Julia with me as nurse.” (Pages 82-83)
    So I guess General Grant was fighting to free his own slaves!!!

  • @travisbayles870
    @travisbayles870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the best cavalry general North or South He was the only Confederate officer feared by both Grant and Sherman His raids are stuff of legend His brilliant tactics are still being studied in military academies all across America and beyond When asked who he thought the best general in the Confederate Army was General Robert E Lee replied He's a man I've never met and his name is Forrest Field Marshall Erwin Rommel of the German Afrika Corps used Forrests tactics to great success in World War II

    • @whatalaffss
      @whatalaffss ปีที่แล้ว

      whats up with white people yo

    • @travisbayles870
      @travisbayles870 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@whatalaffss we are sick and tired of Political InCorrect morons lying about American History and attacking our Confederate Heritage

    • @whatalaffss
      @whatalaffss ปีที่แล้ว

      @@travisbayles870 he make the kkk u is tripping tripping

    • @travisbayles870
      @travisbayles870 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@whatalaffss Thats a lie He was never a part of the KKK

    • @whatalaffss
      @whatalaffss ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@travisbayles870 no its not theres evidence literal museums u can go to

  • @MegaMixking
    @MegaMixking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Forest was the best commander our country ever produced.

    • @mmsoulmm
      @mmsoulmm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fucking racist.

    • @whayes8084
      @whayes8084 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean the one who lost? Sure

    • @pompom-yr3sx
      @pompom-yr3sx 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stonewall Jackson was considered a better leader than napoleon

    • @jotarobat
      @jotarobat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      his side lost and also he founded the kkk

    • @GCKing9598
      @GCKing9598 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jotarobat no he didn’t. That’s just a lie.

  • @kenclayton5088
    @kenclayton5088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A great soldier.3 more of him...different war

    • @rturobhutan2766
      @rturobhutan2766 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm Arthur Bhutic! I'm at 8902 Crazy Horse Trail, Houston, Texas 77064-7151! Luv 💘 Ya Nathan Bedford Forrest!

    • @crispychaos6768
      @crispychaos6768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A traitor to the Union, a slave holder, a Klansman, and a racist POS.

  • @StevenSigmon
    @StevenSigmon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He was not a founding member of the KKK. Please fact check. Founding members were six lawyers in Pulaski, TN.

    • @isaacleillhikar4566
      @isaacleillhikar4566 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were six generals a year after they were generals in the confederacy. Nathan Bedford Forest was the foremost, he is the first grand wizard ever. The KKK say so. And since he left the Klan after two years and rallied against the murder of the black people, it seems what this man told me is true. according to him the Ku Klux Klan started out as a deffense vigilanty group, in case the black people threatenend the white us american civilisation, taking revenge. Since the gouvernement aproved them and they lost. The Klan alwayse talk about confederacy things and admire the confederate generals.

  • @Dhracko_Chavok
    @Dhracko_Chavok 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Plus he was a member of the controversial group of The Knights of the Golden Circle, along with other known people in the Civil War too.

  • @killcancer6499
    @killcancer6499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I have read several biographies of Nathan Bedford Forrest, and not once have I read of the man killing an unarmed man or a man after he surrendered. I would like a source for that.

    • @mr46196
      @mr46196 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Frederick Wells yup thats true

    • @debralegorreta1375
      @debralegorreta1375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      talk to his slaves, which he didn't even consider to be men...

    • @banjo304
      @banjo304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Read about the Fort Pillow massacre. I can't imagine you reading biographies of Forrest and missing that.

    • @oliver8921
      @oliver8921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ok, but he started the fucking kkk

    • @banjo304
      @banjo304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oliver8921 That's not true. He was the first Wizard though, most historians agree. The structure of the first Klan isn't totally certain due to the whole part about it being a secret society.

  • @MikeJones007
    @MikeJones007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    As a young man of color this is a beautiful story. Anyone can change. Glad he got the chance 💛

    • @jaceforrest3520
      @jaceforrest3520 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank u that’s my granpa

    • @reaper88.
      @reaper88. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jaceforrest3520 Based.

  • @alexsacco776
    @alexsacco776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What they’ll Never say is that he left the klan and devoted the rest of his life to civil rights

    • @pompom-yr3sx
      @pompom-yr3sx 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really he did that because if he did my view on him will change

    • @oohweeoohwee9222
      @oohweeoohwee9222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Prove it.

    • @braaxton1904
      @braaxton1904 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oohweeoohwee9222 wym prove it lol thats a fact lol thats like saying prove dr king was a civil rights activist

    • @oohweeoohwee9222
      @oohweeoohwee9222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@braaxton1904 we have proof of Dr King. What do you have on Nothin Forrest?

    • @banjo304
      @banjo304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It sure did take him a while to turn around. Longstreet and Beauregard became actual advocates for Civil Rights. Forrest only advocated for amicability and goodwill between races, he never believed blacks and whites ought to be equal. It's better than nothing, but it doesn't absolve him of being possibly the most evil and brutal of the southern generals.

  • @christophercross7089
    @christophercross7089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He was not one of the six founding members

  • @Koyle69
    @Koyle69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He got that damn statue because he’s forced Dunstan grandfather and put some goddamn respect on his name

  • @marcellovinazzi5690
    @marcellovinazzi5690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    W NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST, GREAT GENERAL

    • @Mago369
      @Mago369 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hell no

  • @slayer19978
    @slayer19978 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How much money for the statue

  • @shirleycarpenter1361
    @shirleycarpenter1361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Never judge a book by its cover.

  • @alexeubanks467
    @alexeubanks467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fort pillow massacre has long since been debunked

  • @爪乇尺匚ヅ
    @爪乇尺匚ヅ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Who else seen the rat 0:57

    • @ramen2369
      @ramen2369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where

    • @tkeaxanax
      @tkeaxanax 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Woop it’s at 1:07 actually to the right in the background

  • @jasong705
    @jasong705 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If they have to discuss taking it down is really a problem

  • @merleshand2442
    @merleshand2442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    He was an American hero who fought in a revolution against a tyrannical government

    • @yessiricatchvibes351
      @yessiricatchvibes351 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He murdered hundreds of unarmed soldiers. Hes in hell

    • @merleshand2442
      @merleshand2442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@yessiricatchvibes351 nearly every other general in history has also war is nasty

    • @debralegorreta1375
      @debralegorreta1375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      he was a racist murderer who help you acummulate wealth,, power, and prestige through the subjugation and oppression of innocents.

    • @merleshand2442
      @merleshand2442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@debralegorreta1375 that just a ridiculous statement but revisionist history has to be simple I suppose to make it easier for lemmings to believe

    • @jamesdean9828
      @jamesdean9828 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hes a traitor

  • @jsgehrke
    @jsgehrke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Forrest memorials, and all confederate memorials, are the only artifacts that remain to us, of the principle--- originating in St. Paul; mediated to us through Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy--- that any government which claims a right to invade, attack, and subjugate its own constituent people forfeits any claim to legitimacy in that very motion. Anyone who supposes that zeal to establish their peculiar concept of political justice can supply just cause for a war of invasion is possessed of a fanatical spirit.

    • @Zooka_Mane
      @Zooka_Mane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fck yo culture

  • @KennyLauderdale
    @KennyLauderdale 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Lol. Dude said "go through it again" lol... Hilarious Shiiiid

  • @revmongoose6123
    @revmongoose6123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If it is true he changed his ways after two years of forming the Klan , then that is good, Its not how we start , its how we end up.

  • @westerfrye2089
    @westerfrye2089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nathan Bedford Forest is among the greatest generals of all time. Along with Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson there were none greater in any war and they should always be remembered for not only their genius but also their humanity Stonewall and Lee both before and after the war and Bedford more so a few years after the war. But no general has been more influential in strategy used even today by our own military than Forest Bedford. He will forever be the strategist of American warfare.

    • @westerfrye2089
      @westerfrye2089 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Ponian TH-cam Sorry but those men don't match up although they were great Generals I'm talking also as in life. Lee was not only a great General he was also a gentleman as was Jackson. Forest was probably single handed the best and most courageous General in American history. After the war become one of the most influential advocates for the equality of blacks in America and disbanded the kkk, when it was found out it had become something it was never suppose to be.

  • @kennethvick
    @kennethvick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So put it in a god damn museum, not at the state capital of Tennessee

    • @merleshand2442
      @merleshand2442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why though? History is important especially with guys like him he was a warrior defending his Homeland and Nashville was the capital of Tennessee

    • @feudinggreeks3316
      @feudinggreeks3316 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Museum? Should the marks of our culture and history be confined to the dungeons of the mausoleum?

    • @feudinggreeks3316
      @feudinggreeks3316 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@merleshand2442 I'm surprised nobody responded with "read a book for history, you don't learn anything from statues." I would have responded to the contrary, adding that statues add as markings of the past. It's a public symbol of those who lived and built the places people today live in.

  • @TheParadoxgeist
    @TheParadoxgeist 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WHY,????
    for the love of god almighty why???????

  • @jonathanfunnell4167
    @jonathanfunnell4167 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A GREAT HISTORICAL FIGURE

  • @guymartin8167
    @guymartin8167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One more thing , Forrest fought for the education of blacks after the war and spent his own money when no one else would.
    He was a great southerner who grew up in a bad time.
    He wasn't evil, and he evolved into one of the early great Civil rights leaders...
    Again , open up some real history books

    • @Zoroaster4
      @Zoroaster4 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well he was a plantation owner, slave trader, confederate general, and a founder of the KKK. I have no doubts he was racist. I don't think we should be celebrating him with a statue. Put them in a museum. Leaving it in parks seems to be celebrating what he did.

    • @Zooka_Mane
      @Zooka_Mane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fck allat delete all the racist history

    • @feudinggreeks3316
      @feudinggreeks3316 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Zoroaster4 "Leaving it in parks seems to be celebrating what he did." What?

    • @Zoroaster4
      @Zoroaster4 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@feudinggreeks3316 What exactly is so difficult to understand about that? Either you're dumb or being intentionally obtuse.

    • @Zoroaster4
      @Zoroaster4 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@feudinggreeks3316 What exactly is so difficult to understand about that? Either you're dumb or being intentionally obtuse.

  • @iseydeadmen5934
    @iseydeadmen5934 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    damn. get your facts straight. best cavalry soldier in the history of America had 30 horses shot from under him. I won't even watch the rest.

  • @SouthernGentleman
    @SouthernGentleman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    He was a black civil rights activist

    • @rickzepeda4403
      @rickzepeda4403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      as slave trade and owner???

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rickzepeda4403 No. 1875, he advocated for the admission of blacks into law school

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Forrest became the primary caretaker of his family when he was 16.
      In 1841 Forrest went into business with his uncle Jonathan Forrest in Hernando, Mississippi. His uncle was killed there in 1845 during an argument with the Matlock brothers. In retaliation, Forrest shot and killed two of them with his two shot pistol and wounded two others with a knife which had been thrown to him. One of the wounded Matlock men survived and served under Forrest during the Civil War. Forrest wanted to be successful after living in a poor cabin. He had success as a businessman, planter and slaveholder.
      Historians describe him as fair and during the civil war he offered freedom to blacks who served in his regiment. 20% of his cavalry was black and he remembered as one of the greatest military leaders in history.
      After the war he joined the kkk because he thought it was just another militia at the time, when he found out it was evil, he disbanded it and helped the governor of Tennessee arrest and fight them and he advocated for black rights.
      Ignorance like yours is why men like him is hated. Read a history book

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      “Let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.” - Nathan Bedford Forrest

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @lonnieallen7199
    @lonnieallen7199 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of america greatest calvery generals

  • @andrewthetextbook489
    @andrewthetextbook489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A relative of Forrest Gump.

  • @oohweeoohwee9222
    @oohweeoohwee9222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excuses excuses

  • @elizabethvaughn5694
    @elizabethvaughn5694 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Statue is gone ❤️ as of yesterday

  • @sl0w-p0k3
    @sl0w-p0k3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    History, wether it's pretty or not must be remembered or else history will repeat it's self.

    • @Zooka_Mane
      @Zooka_Mane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shvtcho dmb @zz up if we remember it it will repeat

  • @commiekiller4420
    @commiekiller4420 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    These people make numerous mistakes on Nathan Bedford Forrest you’re more ignorant listening to them he killed 30 men and hand to hand combat and had 31 horses shot out from underneath him

  • @w41duvernay
    @w41duvernay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I just look at the overall damage that Beford did, Overall he did some serious harm to the nation with the Civil War stuff, AND the KKK founding and nothing he tried to do after that can make up for it. If there is a day or statue honoring him in a state, take it down. The one in the museum can stay.

    • @shanerobinson7128
      @shanerobinson7128 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      🖕🏻

    • @GCKing9598
      @GCKing9598 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He didn’t start the KKK that’s just a lie. And what did he do that was so bad during the civil war other than fight for the confederacy?

    • @jfournerat1274
      @jfournerat1274 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GCKing9598 he massacred a group of innocent African American soldiers even when they had surrendered to him meaning that he was a war criminal and a murderer.

  • @wink1666
    @wink1666 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    will people ever grow up

  • @KirksCORNER1983
    @KirksCORNER1983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Give it to me I will take care of it!!

  • @queenisrael8158
    @queenisrael8158 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im pretty sure that evil beast is burning in hell fire 🔥🔥 forever by THE Most High God of justice!!!!

  • @shellyg7598
    @shellyg7598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is this another attempt to re-write history in order to justify our nation's reluctance to denounce Nathan Bedford Forrest?

    • @banjo304
      @banjo304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, it's a pretty good and nuanced look at a complicated historical figure and the arguments for and against memorializing him.

  • @derekhuff-plantagenet8906
    @derekhuff-plantagenet8906 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Forrest bitches!!

  • @64bitmad42
    @64bitmad42 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He was indeed a racist. However everyone was at the time. We must also look at how he was a great general.

    • @stpat7614
      @stpat7614 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For the wrong side. He was a traitor.

    • @imaginexd1871
      @imaginexd1871 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stpat7614 No he wasn't please crack open a book and read about it

    • @stpat7614
      @stpat7614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@imaginexd1871 Are you loyal to the USA or the CSA? If it's the former, then he was a traitor.

    • @mmsoulmm
      @mmsoulmm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      he was a racist piece of shit I I'll spit on his statue

    • @robinsoncrusoe7996
      @robinsoncrusoe7996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stpat7614 he was against secession but when TN left the union he stayed loyal to his home, like many other soldiers did. You are just one more ignorant not caring about historical context.

  • @lovinLaVonna
    @lovinLaVonna ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy is 100% correct about him changing after the war and the Klan. He did more good for black men and women after he changed then he did bad during any other time of his life. People really need to get the whole story when it comes to history.

  • @KennyLauderdale
    @KennyLauderdale 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    They chose the wrong guy to interview lol. He looks sick.

  • @carlthornton8706
    @carlthornton8706 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    OK!.... 177

  • @РусланАбудов
    @РусланАбудов 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He was a hero

  • @IExpectedBSJustNotThisMuchBS
    @IExpectedBSJustNotThisMuchBS 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's 2021 and the Historical Commission has decided that the bust should be moved from the Capitol to a museum and so how do Republicans want to handle this? They want to replace the commission members and do away with the requirement that they have a historical background. No doubt they know his full history. Seriously, are people looking at this bust and remembering what he did later? If that's not common knowledge, then why not etch it in stone under the bust so that that message of repentance / change of heart and positive action is delivered? I think what it is said he did (e.g., quitting the Klan and advocating for the rights of black people) is not the message anyone who is opposing the removal wants to get across. If so then put up or shut up and let it be moved.

  • @peterschutler7067
    @peterschutler7067 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Send the bust to me, I will display it!

  • @scotthotchkiss7120
    @scotthotchkiss7120 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really was a relative of forest gump.

  • @19leeryan
    @19leeryan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now that's a well known democrat.

  • @daviusdavis2537
    @daviusdavis2537 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes! We need more positive stories on the Ku
    Klux klan. Nathan Bedford was the first Grand Wizard of the Klan. When black Union soldiers tried to surrender, they were put like dogs! He was a great American! Make this video go viral!

    • @jaceforrest3520
      @jaceforrest3520 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My grandfather

    • @stonewalljackson5692
      @stonewalljackson5692 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Every historic figure has dark secrets, that doesn't mean they can't be honored.