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Nathan Bedford Forrest

Calming the Rage

By Barbara Marthal

I am desperately trying to sooth a despaired and troubled heart.  What’s the source of my despair?  The stuck record that is playing in my mind, repeating this question.  How do we help our fellow… »

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The Duty of the Hour

By Neil Kumar

The first thing I learned about Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest was that he had twenty-nine horses shot out from under him in battle; in my fifth-grade social studies class, I remember thinking to myself that… »

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Nathan Bedford Forrest: The Hero in Fiction

By Jane Brown

A review of None Shall Look Back (J.S. Sanders, 1992) by Caroline Gordon Thus far the War Between the States has failed to produce an epic like The Iliad, a narrative account of the four-year… »

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A Confederate Dialogue

By Tom Rash

A review of The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate (University of Mississippi Press, 1987), Thomas Daniel Young and Elizabeth Sarcone, eds. Considering Allen Tate’s well-documented contrariness, the four-decade-long friendship of… »

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A History Lesson for Ted Cruz

By Samuel W. Mitcham

I am always annoyed when a conservative political leader attacks Southern heritage. I don’t know why because with the present-day crop of cowardly politicians, it is becoming routine, but I am. Unwittingly or not, these… »

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Nathan Bedford Forrest and Southern Folkways

By Benjamin Alexander

There are many examples of heroism that illustrate spiritedness in America’s history. Indeed, the American Revolution was won because of the indomitable spirit of the Patriots and a growing unwillingness of the British to put… »

  • Andrew N. Lytle
  • Benjamin Alexander
  • I'll Take My Stand
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  • Southern Culture
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A Rebel Born

By Clyde Wilson

Foreword for A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General, American Legend, by Lochlainn Seabrook, Sea Raven Press, 2010. There is a story that a year or two after the great American… »

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  • Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • War for Southern Independence

Bust Hell Wide Open

By James Rutledge Roesch

A review of Bust Hell Wide Open: the Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Regnery History, 2016. Writing a biography about Nathan Bedford Forrest – a man recognized by no less… »

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

By Andrew Nelson Lytle

This essay was published as a new introduction for Lytle’s Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company and is published here in honor of Forrest’s birthday, July 13. This is a young man’s book. To have… »

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Our Noble Banner

By Clyde Wilson

The Confederate battle flag is protean. It is a powerful symbol that has entered the world’s consciousness. “Protean,” going back to the classical Proteus, is defined as “readily taking on varied shapes, forms, or meanings.”  … »

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