The General Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/27/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Stop by and visit the greatest military genius of his time and seek out a magnetic key holder. Please make sure to replace it exactly as you found it.

There is so much misinformation out there about General Nathan Bedford Forrest. For example, most folks don't know that while yes, he was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK, that was BEFORE it turned
into the racist organization it's known as today. When Forrest noticed the racial undertones beginning he ordered it disbanded and left the Klan. When the slaves were freed, his did not want to leave. At a Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association (NAACP predecessor) convention in Memphis, NBF was invited to speak, the first white man ever to do so.

During the reconstruction following the war, he urged the Memphis alderman to hire ex-slaves because they were skilled in many of the types of work needed. The City did not listen, so Forrest himself gave high level jobs that blacks were not allowed to hold in the North when he formed the Memphis & Selma Railway.

Does this sound like the man you've heard about all your life? It sure surprised me when I was assigned NBF for a research paper in college by a black professor. At first I was a bit timid about writing and speaking about such a man, then when my reading uncovered very different information than I remembered from my high school books, I was terrified. Now that that assignment is over I am very thankful to that professor, who after my presentation smiled and said if I had given any of those other stories about NBF he'd have failed me. I now think of Nathan Bedford Forrest in a whole new way, and have the utmost respect for him.

Go to the library and grab a book on Nathan Bedford Forrest and take the time to read it. You may be as surprised as I was.

Cache contains a small trophy for the FTF.

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