Nathan Bedford Forrest Speaks Truth to Power in DC
Testimony of Nathan Bedford Forrest Before the Joint Select Committee of the U.S. Congress on the Ku-Klux, etc.,
Testimony of Nathan Bedford Forrest Before the Joint Select Committee of the U.S. Congress on the Ku-Klux, etc.,
On June 27, 1871, in Washington, D.C., Nathan Bedford Forrest testified before the Joint Select Committee of the United States Congress on the Ku-Klux. Forrest was called to testify because the Committee thought that he and Gen. John B. Gordon knew more about the KKK than anybody else.
Ever since the end of the War Between the States, Forrest has been falsely accused of being the grand wizard and founder of the KKK. However, John Allan Wyeth in his famous biography Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest writes about Forrest’s testimony:
Forrest testified that while he did not take an active part in the organization of the Ku-Klux, he knew that it was an association of citizens in his state (Tennessee) for self-protection. There was a great, widespread, and deep feeling of insecurity felt by those who had sympathized with the South in the war, as a result of Governor Brownlow’s calling out the militia and his proclamation, which they had interpreted as a license for the state troops, without fear of punishment, to commit any kind of depredation against those lately in arms against the Union. Forrest stated that he had advised against all manner of violence on…
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