So I get a letter from a guy who read “Confronting Evil” and is furious. He objects to my classifying Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest as a miscreant.  Forrest, who founded the Ku Klux Klan, slaughtered surrendering Union troops in Tennessee and was an all-around hater.  But the letter writer says he was only upholding “the war of Southern independence.”Great.
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So I get a letter from a guy who read “Confronting Evil” and is furious. He objects to my classifying Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest as a miscreant.  Forrest, who founded the Ku Klux Klan, slaughtered surrendering Union troops in Tennessee and was an all-around hater.  But the letter writer says he was only upholding “the war of Southern independence.”

Great.

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