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Devil's dream
Nathan Bedford Forrest was the most reviled and celebrated, loathed and legendary, of Civil War generals. We see Forrest off the battlefield, in the more hidden but no less telling moments of his life: wooing the woman who would become his wife; battling an addiction to gambling; overcoming his abhorrence of the bureaucracy of the army to rise to its highest ranks. We see him taking part in the business of slave trading, but treating his own slaves humanely. We see him with his slave mistress, with whom he fathered several children, and we see him reveal his gift for inspiring courage but not change.
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Devil's Dream
Just past the Tennessee River, you leave I-40 at an exit for Birdsong and then you drive for another forty minutes north (not an hour away after all!) through scrub woods, trailer communities, and brokedown rural towns-what would be very easy to think of as redneck country if I didn't hate so much all the unthinking and mean-spirited stereotypes of the South. [...]a single woman in an old Subaru Forrester with a puppy and a medium-sized dog, I started to be nagged by vague worry about finding the forest-park without stopping for directions and calling attention to myself, and then about traipsing alone in the woods. The trails were indeed well-marked, and parts of them were gorgeous-not the trashlaced parts that had been flooded by the Tennessee River but the parts that were braided by little tributary creeks that Mojo had so much fun wading into and prissy Sadie had such fits crossing without getting her feet wet (some bird dog, that one). Soon enough, I inhaled the rest on the Kindle version I'd purchased (who would plan to keep the novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest anyway?) and started reading it again, almost without registering the impulse.
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Whiteness and Masculinity in Richard Lou’s ReCovering Memphis
In 2016, racist, patriarchal rhetoric dominated the political landscape of the United States. As a response, activist artist Richard Lou of Memphis, Tennessee created a video piece as part of his series ReCovering Memphis titled ReContexting Bodies. In the artwork, Lou performs whiteness by re-creating photographs and reciting words of historic Civil War leaders Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest and President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis. With his racialized body, Lou confronts the foundations of white supremacy in the United States American South. ReContexting Bodies examines how two historic identities of southern masculinity shape contemporary biases.
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Rhodes College Students Set the Record Straight on Nathan Bedford Forrest
Students in a history class at Rhodes College in Memphis spent the fall semester researching the slave trade that occurred in the city prior to the Civil War. As a result of this research, a new historically marker will be erected on the property of the Calvary Episcopal Church detailing the involvement of Nathan Bedford Forrest in the slave trade. Forrest was a Confederate General and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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TENNESSEANS IN GRAY
According to the regimental history of the 7di, \"O'Kelley rushed to the front, and having discharged his gun and pistol, drew saber, and, overtaking one of the enemy's troopers, engaged him in personal combat. According to an historian in the town, Blackburn rode there on horseback from Tennessee, and opened a law practice. According to a news account, Guild pulled from his pocket a large ear of corn and presented it to Preston. According to his family, Dawson emptied two pistols and broke his saber in two before he lost his life.
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NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST: BORN TO FIGHT
Tillinghast talks about Nathan Bedford Forrest who remains one of the Civil War's most controversial figures. According to his biographer Jack Hurst, he was both a soft-spoken gentleman of marked placidity and an overbearing bully of homicidal wrath. Of his military genius there can be little doubt. When asked to name the best officer who had fought on the southern side, Robert E. Lee unhesitatingly replied, His name is Forrest.
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