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 issued his fake and illegal Emancipation Proclamation. And unlike liberal Lincoln, 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 anti-South proponents. 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 - Confederate General, American Legend,' unreconstructed Southern historian, award-winning 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 considered to be 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 almost solely from slanderous myths created 150 years ago by Lincoln's anti-South propaganda machine. At 822 pages this is the longest book ever written on Forrest. This newly revised Civil War Sesquicentennial 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, Forrest's astrological profile, an 800-book bibliography, a detailed index, and more. Read the book that everyone is raving about and learn the facts about Forrest, facts that have been wantonly suppressed by enemies of the South. The Foreword is by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of South Carolina. In 2011 Lochlainn Seabrook was awarded the UDC's prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal for ¿¿A Rebel Born.' Known as the "American Robert Graves" after his celebrated English cousin, Seabrook is the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and the author of over thirty popular adult and children's books, twelve of them on the War for Southern Independence. His titles include: "Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask A Southerner!"; "Lincolnology: The Real Abraham Lincoln Revealed in His Own Words"; "The Quotable Robert E. Lee"; "The Old Rebel: Robert E. Lee As He Was Seen By His Contemporaries"; "Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View"; "The McGavocks of Carnton Plantation: A Southern History"; "The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln: The President's Quotes They Don't Want You to Know!"; "Nathan Bedford Forrest: Southern Hero, American Patriot"; "The Quotable Jefferson Davis"; "Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Unexplained From Tennessee's Most Haunted Civil War House!"; and "The Caudills: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study."