Ta-Nehisi Coates dings Shelby Foote
I didn’t realize old Foote was so goofy: “I would fight for the Confederacy today if the circumstances were similar.” This really disappoints me — and I speak as a descendant of someone who (according to a family history produced by them Latter-Day Saints) was pals with Nathan Bedford Forrest. Glad to see Coates pursuing ...
I didn't realize old Foote was so goofy: "I would fight for the Confederacy today if the circumstances were similar." This really disappoints me -- and I speak as a descendant of someone who (according to a family history produced by them Latter-Day Saints) was pals with Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I didn’t realize old Foote was so goofy: “I would fight for the Confederacy today if the circumstances were similar.” This really disappoints me — and I speak as a descendant of someone who (according to a family history produced by them Latter-Day Saints) was pals with Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Glad to see Coates pursuing this question. In a follow-up, he notes that Foote managed to get court-martialed out of the Army during World War II. I think you had to screw up pretty badly to actually released and sent home. Not even Jim Brown got that treatment.
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