Nathan Bedford Forrest
Southern Hero, American Patriot
 

Honoring a Confederate Icon and the Old South

by
Lochlainn Seabrook
Copyright © 2007, 2009 Lochlainn Seabrook

Foreword by James Ronald Kennedy
Author of The South Was Right!

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BOOK REVIEW
His critics have called him everything from a violent backwoodsman, illiterate redneck, and cruel slaver, to a crooked politician, unfaithful husband, and simple-minded hillbilly.  Traditional Southerners, however, like Lochlainn Seabrook - author of the popular Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View - know that General Nathan Bedford Forrest was none of these things.  In fact, he was quite the opposite.

Far from being an inhumane slave owner and trader, Forrest granted most of his servants their freedom even before Lincoln's War.  Others he enlisted in his own command, then emancipated them in the fall of 1863 - the same year Lincoln issued his fake Emancipation Proclamation (which freed no slaves).

Forrest never separated servant families, refused to sell to cruel slavers, and was even responsible for reuniting several divided black families.  Unlike Lincoln who, throughout his life, aggressively campaigned for the deportation of all blacks out of America, after the War Forrest happily hired back his original servants then called for the South to repopulate herself with new African immigrants.  Neither the founder or the leader of the KKK as the North teaches, Forrest - the group's most well-known supporter - called for the disbandment of the organization in 1869 as it had fulfilled its mission (to regain political control of the South) and had begun to take on racist overtones.

These and many other fascinating facts are presented clearly and concisely by Seabrook, a cousin of Forrest and a member of the SCV, in this rousing defense of one of the greatest unreconstructed Southerners in American history.  Lavishly illustrated, this book was originally an article written for Confederate Veteran magazine.  Foreword by best-selling author James Ronald Kennedy (The South Was Right!).

This, the 2nd edition, has been greatly expanded, improved, revised, and updated: four times as long as the 1st edition, it now includes a color cover (with a Forrest painting by acclaimed military artist John Paul Strain), new information, numerous additional illustrations, an index, and a bibliography.


BOOK DESCRIPTION
♦ Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
♦ Introduction: Sea Raven Press Staff
♦ Foreword: James Ronald Kennedy
♦ Publication type: mass market paperback
♦ ISBN: 0976870797
♦ Amazon.com Catalog Number: ASIN# B000VZOOKG
♦ Copyright: 1st edition 2007.  2nd edition 2009.
♦ Pages: 114
♦ Illustrated: yes
♦ Printing: double-sided
♦ Cover: color
♦ Binding: perfect
♦ Publisher: Sea Raven Press
♦ Size: 8.25" x 5.25"
♦ Categories & Keywords: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Civil War, Forrest, War for Southern Independence, Confederacy, Tennessee, states' rights, non-fiction, American history, Southern history, Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, civil rights, Emancipation Proclamation, Dixie, Southern states, Northern states, Rebels, Yankees.

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