Yankee historians delight in calling Confederate General Nathan Bedford
Forrest "the Butcher of Fort Pillow," claiming that he instigated a
"racist massacre" of surrendering black Union troops during the battle
at Henning, Tennessee, on April 12, 1864. But is this true? Absolutely
not! It is merely the North's fabricated version, one based not on
reality, but on opinion, nescience, emotion, sciolism, presentism,
spite, and an anti-South bias that is still very much alive to this day.
For those who are interested in the truth about the conflict,
award-winning historian and Forrest scholar Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook
has written Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Fort Pillow:
Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact. This brief but comprehensive
investigation blows the lid off what pro-North writers like to refer to
as a "controversy," but which was in fact nothing more than an ordinary
fight in which an overwhelming force (2,500 racially integrated
Confederates) assaulted an indefensible fort filled with belligerent
drunken soldiers (600 racially segregated Yankees) who refused to
surrender in the face of impossible odds. Excerpted from Colonel
Seabrook's popular title A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford
Forrest, the book contains dozens of pages of new material, along with
rare photos and illustrations, maps, details concerning the origins of
the battle and the charges against Forrest, official reports, and
important eyewitness accounts by those at the scene. Also included: an
index, bibliography, and reference notes.
This work, which will help restore Forrest's reputation after being
unfairly tarnished by 150 years of slander, falsehoods, and anti-South
propaganda, is a must-read for all those who are in search of the truth
about Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Fort Pillow. For the
traditional South, Col. Seabrook's book - just one of 12 he has written
on his famous Tennessee cousin - represents the final word on the
matter. Available in paperback and hardcover.
Neo-Victorian scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, whose literary works range
from astronomy to zoology, is one of the most prolific and popular
writer-historians in the world today. A descendant of the families of
Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William
Giles Harding, he is known by literary critics as the "new Shelby Foote"
and the "American Robert Graves," and by his fans as the "Voice of the
Traditional South." The Sons of Confederate Veterans member is a
Kentucky Colonel, a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis
Historical Gold Medal, and the author and editor of nearly 100
educationally enlightening books (currently). Described by his readers
as "game changers" and "life-altering," his voluminous writings have
introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out
of our mainstream books. A 7th generation Kentuckian of Appalachian
heritage and the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Col. Seabrook
has a 45-year background in American and Southern history, and is the
author of the international blockbuster Everything You Were Taught About
the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
Seabrook's other titles include: Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal,
Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative: The Missing Key to Understanding the
American Civil War; Lincoln's War: The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the
Real Loser; Confederate Flag Facts: What Every American Should Know
About Dixie's Southern Cross; Everything You Were Taught About American
Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!; The Unholy Crusade: Lincoln's
Legacy of Destruction in the American South; The Great Yankee Coverup:
What the North Doesn't Want You to Know About Lincoln's War; The
Bittersweet Bond: Race Relations in the Old South as Described by White
and Black Southerners.
