Good point, OP. Robert Byrd's name is on everything in WV. Where are the lawsuits?

General Forest was a really great general and developed combat techniques that are still used today. He could have helped the south win, but unfortunately Gen. Lee didn't use him or his advice as he should have. He didn't become a member of the KKK until all the "carpet baggers" came to town and started destorying what he believed in. Most of the early KKK memebers were to stop these "carpet baggers", not to continue slavery.

For information I did a college term paper on him and found this information in history books written only 5 years after the war, and in personal letters that are published.

Agree with #2, General Forrest was a great general, if Lee would have used him more effectively, the War of Southern Aggression may have turned out differently...

Forrest was a changed man near the end and very brave. He attempted to bring the races together, not apart. Read the account of his speech to the "Jubilee of Pole Bearers" in 1875. It's a disgrace for ignorant people to oppose this monument.

#3, wouldn't that be "Northern" aggression?

Concur with #2 and #3.

Around this part of the country, the memory of GEN Forrest is alive and well.

Semper Paratus

Gen Forrest has become another straw man for Leftist to beat up on to further their agendas. He was falsely accused of killing surrendered troops and non-combatants at Fort Pillow but after the war an investigate committee in Washington absolved him of those charges.

It is either the "War of Northern Aggression" or the "War for Southern Independence"!

I was born at a US Army /Air Corps post in Tennessee called Camp Forrest. They were training bomber pilots for WW2 . the camp is right by Stones River Battleground. And close by the JackDaniels distillery .The name was ok then as Forrest wasn't the evil figure the left now uses to demagogue

Forrest amassed a fortune by being, among other things, a slave trader. That is far worse than being a KKK member. He should not be honored by anybody.

It's actually known as the 'Civil War'. There are those who like to refer to it as the 'War of Northern Aggression' under the principle that picking at a scab will help it to heal...

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of America's greatest generals, along with Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman. It is a shame that a memorial in his honor should be held up by racial politics.

Jumping in on the side of Nathan Bedford Forrest. The man was a genius and certainly should have been used more. I see no reason not to put up a statue in his honor, he was a true hero of the South.
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Agree with all the above who speak good of NBF-- The original KKK was not like the one so often depicted in movies and lied about by those trying to get sympathetic press or stir up racial hatred.

If the media didn't filter all it's advocacy through liberal lies and distortions of history-- we'd all be better informed and better off.

I'd be proud to have that monument placed in my front yard.

Most of the males in the south were members of the KKK at one time or another. My own Louisiana grandfather was a member and there wasn't a kinder soul in the state. He was born well after "The Waw-uh" and was swept up into an effort against the damage of Reconstruction.

Forrest actually renounced the Klan in later years when it became violent.

'Civil War' is incorrect. A civil war is one where the parties vie for control of a single government. The South seceded. They wanted nothing further to do with the North or Washington DC and just wanted to be left alone.

A correct (and neutral) term would be 'The War Between The States'. That was the term taught in school when I was growing up (40's and 50's). The North preferred to call it 'The War of The Rebellion' and that's how it was named in the 'Official Records'.

Forrest and several other CS Generals (Cleburne, etc.) wanted to enlist the black slaves in return for their freedom. If Davis had gone along, Southerners might be sending their taxed to Richmond now instead of Washington.

Well, to be consistent, I am certain that they would also be against statues of Harry Truman and Robert Byrd.

#11...maybe we are smiling when it is said instead of "picking at a scab". Sorta like "save your Dixie cups the South will rise again". There is such a thing as good-natured ribbing.

Notice there is no mention of the fact that he was a Democrat.

I've used his strategy of getting there first with the most( sometimes worded as getting there firstest with the mostest) in the business world to good effect. The man was a first class strategist and fearless to boot - traits to dread in a foe and cherish in a friend.

A civil war is when two factions are fighting to overtake a government. The south did not want control of the government, they wanted to secede from the union. It was the war between the states and not a civil war.

Forrest was not a "slave trader" - he was an audacious speculator who traded in all sorts of things including slaves. He was a natural leader of men and utterly fearless.

We ought to remove all the monuments to him however (along with those to Washington, Adams, Madison, - everyone in fact before FDR). Americans are now all little cowards who take off their shoes at airports. Forrest would never, ever have put up with this.