Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest

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"It has sometimes been said of the South's plantation aristocracy that it was invisible in war, invincible in defeat. Whatever may be said of the military performance of the planter class as a whole, the first part of this aphorism clearly does not apply--and the second part just as clearly does--to one of its notable representatives, General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

During the Civil War, Forrest showed himself to be not only a brilliant general, whose belief in being "the first with the most" has become a famous military dictum, but also very much a soldier's general, a general who led his troops from the front. After the war's end, he stubbornly refused to accept military defeat as meaning an end to the "way of life" for which he fought, and of which he himself was a conspicuous example. Although the question cannot be regarded as ... "

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