Forrest’s Birthday – Today In Southern History
13 July 1821
On this date in 1821…
Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest was born at Chapel Hill, Tennessee.
Other Years:
1585 – A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, North Carolina
.1754 – During the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small stockade of Fort Necessity to the French.
1780 – Georgia troops attacked and defeated a Tory encampment at Gowen’s Old Fort, South Carolina.
1868 – Oscar J Dunn, a former slave, was installed as Louisiana reconstruction Lt. Governor.
1937 – Krispy Kreme Donuts was founded by Vernon Rudolph at Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1978 – Walter Poenisch completed his 129 mile swim to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida.
1984 – In the Arkansas Ozarks, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and stayed comatose, awakening in June, 2003.
1998 – “Image of an Assassination,” the video documentary on Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of U.S. President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas went on sale.
The Ku Klux Klan's highest leadership has always been a bunch of rich boys descended from crown loyalists angry that they can't own people telling the common working folk that the Yankees are coming for their women. Where as the Yankees vastly overexagerated the ubiquity of slavery in the south making it seem that a slave was like a butter churn and everybody had at least two or three. Essentially both sides fought over the lies of people hoarding wealth and using low paid and at that time unpaid labor to do it. Let's learn from the past and not allow that kind of stupidity to invade our thinking again.