A Rebel Born

General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brave and ingenious Confederate officer
who won all but one of the battles he led; a philanthropist who gave
generously to family, friends, and charities; and a humanitarian who not
only spared the lives of numerous Yankees on the battlefield, but who freed
his slaves years before Lincoln reluctantly issued his fake and illegal
Emancipation Proclamation. And unlike our liberal sixteenth president, who
purposefully delayed abolition, hindered black social and political
advancement, and campaigned throughout his life to have all blacks deported
out of the U.S., after the War conservative Forrest crusaded to bring new
African immigrants into the South-with full civil rights. No one would know
any of this by reading the typical works on Forrest, however, nearly all
which are written and published by enemies of the South. In fact, according
to most Northern and New South authors Forrest was a violent redneck, an
unregenerate racist, a barbaric slave trader, a philandering husband, an
illiterate hillbilly, the founder and grand wizard of the KKK, and "the
butcher of Fort Pillow." None of this is true, but it continues to be
presented in our history books as fact. In "A Rebel Born: A Defense of
Nathan Bedford Forrest"-winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical
Gold Medal-unreconstructed Southern historian, Tennessee author, and Forrest
scholar Lochlainn Seabrook reveals the truth about one of history's most
fascinating, charismatic, complex, romantic, and unique individuals. In
this refreshingly positive appraisal of Forrest, widely acclaimed as
Seabrook's "masterpiece," the author corrects the many falsehoods about him,
and, using well researched documentation, shows that the modern negative
image of the General derives solely from slanderous myths created 150 years
ago by Lincoln's anti-South propaganda machine. The longest book ever
written on Forrest, this newly revised Civil War Sesquicentennial hardcover
edition includes his life story, over 2,000 footnotes, hundreds of photos
and illustrations (many never before seen by the public), a list of
Forrest's military engagements, a Forrest life calendar, Forrest and
Montgomery family trees, an 800-book bibliography, a detailed index, and
more. Learn the facts about Forrest, facts that have been wantonly
suppressed by anti-South proponents. The Foreword is by Dr. Clyde N.
Wilson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of South
Carolina, and author of "Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and
Culture." Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a cousin of General
Forrest, is the most prolific and popular pro-South writer in the world
today. Known as the "new Shelby Foote," he is an award-winning author of
over 45 books. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage, Mr.
Seabrook has a forty-year background in American and Southern history, and
is the author of the runaway bestseller "Every...