Part One: The Birth of the Ku Klux Klan
Behind the Bastards
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Fucking Nathan Bedford Forrest
Forrest was a former Confederate cavalry general, and in general, a very smart guy. Some historians consider him to be the greatest cavalry commander of the modern era. Forrest ordered his men not to treat the fort's 300 black soldiers as POWs. They were all murdered.
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