{"id":38383,"date":"2019-10-30T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38383"},"modified":"2019-10-30T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:00:48","slug":"history-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-part-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/history-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-part-0\/","title":{"rendered":"History: General Nathan Bedford Forrest, part 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about the Civil War: the tutor mentions a quote never far from his mind.<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\nI have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue.<br\/><br\/>\n<em>General Nathan Bedford Forrest<\/em>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nNearly 25 years ago, I read the trilogy <em>The Civil War<\/em> by Shelby Foote. That war was immense, and changed the world in ways not commonly known.\n<\/p>\n<p>General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Southerner (Confederate), of course, and remains a controversial figure. Yet, his sentiment above tells engagement that, as a parent, I try to reach.<\/p>\n<p>\nForrest was wounded four times in the war.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Foote, Shelby. <em>The Civil War<\/em>. New York: Random House, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civilwartalk.com\/threads\/nathan-bedford-forrest-quotes.76468\/\">civilwartalk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefields.org\/learn\/biographies\/nathan-bedford-forrest\">battlefields.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about the Civil War: the tutor mentions a quote never far from his mind. I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/history-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-part-0\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History: General Nathan Bedford Forrest, part 0<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38384,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383\/revisions\/38384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}