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He calls Forrest "a man you can follow" despite having originally planned to come to America to lead a slave rebellion. What inspired this character? I could find no evidence to support this assertion and any blood son of Toussaint would have been over 60 by the time of the Civil War. But I liked this idea, and in a novel you do get to make things up. I created a Haitian character who had some misfortunate involvement with actual events in Haiti around the right time and needed to go elsewhere for a while. Devil's Dream ends after peace is declared, without going into Forrest's life after the war and his controversial involvement with the Ku Klux Klan.
Do you feel that the war was the most meaningful part of his life? I think the post-war events are a really a separate story. The war wore him out and broke his health—he never completely recovered. As for the KKK, a chronology of real events at the end of my novel throws some light on it. Forrest had enough prestige to enforce some organization and discipline, which can be hard to do in a clandestine terrorist organization spread over such a large region.
The Reconstruction KKK was devoted to restoring white supremacy and getting back political rights for former Confederates.
It was among other things a resistance movement on the part of a people whose territory was under military occupation by a hostile power. In that sense, the Reconstruction KKK resembles entities like, say, the PLO more than it does later avatars that cropped up in the s and s, which I consider to be racist fascist hate groups and nothing more. The Reconstruction Klan was disbanded after Confederates got their political rights back and Forrest did say that he ordered it to be permanently disbanded at that time, which I am inclined to believe. Forrest offered freedom to some of the slaves that served with him, and called for harmony between the races in at least two public speeches after the Civil War.
Yet he was a slave trader and Klan member. How do you explain these contradictory impulses?
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Do they need to be explained? The contradictions are certainly interesting and rather hard to figure out. For one thing I think Forrest was not a very reflective person, and so could accommodate paradoxes in his being and behavior more comfortably than more reflective people could. Beyond that, I think the key is that Forrest did nothing half-heartedly. At the end of the war he desperately wanted to go to Texas or Mexico to carry on some kind of struggle in one of those places but he was persuaded by Anderson that it would be wrong to abandon his soldiers that way.
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So he threw himself into dealing with the consequences of defeat with all the energy he had thrown into the war. The Klan was about making the conditions of defeat more tolerable to the interest group to which Forrest belonged. All that said, the language is picturesque and occasionally moving, even if it sometimes reads like the lists of the killing of warriors in the Iliad, the characters generally come alive, even the inexplicable Henri, including Forrest's wife and mother, and especially the General himself. I perhaps should recuse myself from Confederate literature; despite having lived in the South for many years, I find the beginnings of the Civil War as inexplicable as those of the First World War.
For all the fiery talk, the North was not demonstrably moving toward complete abolition -- it took three years before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, and the Union Army was so unprepared for ending slavery that it took the lawyer Gen. Butler to figure out how to handle deserting slaves. I am immune, too, to the development of the nostalgia industry for the southern cause. The early, and to my mind best, literature of the conflict was blue: Melville, Whitman, Crane, of course, and the memoirs of Generals Grant and Sherman. Perhaps the initiative turns with the cinema, and D.
Griffith's repulsive images of Reconstruction and the Klan, with Faulkner's ambivalence, with "Gone with the Wind" and the plantation myth. But myth it all is, from Griffith to Bell, and "Devil's Dream" stands somewhat uneasily in that tradition. Because it lost on the battlefield, the South sought redress through economic and social restriction, political obstruction, and a literary nostalgia that finds glory on the cruelty of the blood-soaked battlefield. Specifically referencing "Devil's Dream" surely I am not alone in noting that when at last, in the final scene, Bell's Forrest laments the waste of the war and wonders what it was all for, the proximate cause of this meditation that comes far too late is not the danger to his sons one of them a product of yet another liaison with a slave or the death of his inexplicably loyal Haitian, but the loss of yet another horse.
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He took one as a mistress, fathered at least a few, and rode side-by-side with a loyal contingent of black soldiers and teamsters throughout the Civil War. One of those soldiers was even his son. This being the South however, Forrest never owned up to the fact that the lad was his own blood. But on occasion he did show some kind of empathy. Just as Forrest showed a tinge of compassion when he discovered that one of his slaves had been separated from his wife.
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After the War though, Forrest did what every self-respecting bigot slave trader did — he joined the Ku Klux Klan. The General had some very ugly qualities. And his Dream is revealed with just the right amount of both. Forrest was a millionaire plantation owner when the War broke out. And that not only gave him an edge, it earned him their wrath as well. Indeed Robert E. Fields are littered with corpses, rivers run red with blood, and through it all Forrest gallops like a man possessed.
And when he gets that certain rage in his eye, no one or no thing can stand in his way. Unfortunately, all but a very few slaves would be raised to do anything other than flee, and this Henri ends-up on the wrong side of some vigilantes. Bell, who undoubtedly learned a thing or two about spirits while writing the Haitian Trilogy which preceded his Toussaint Louverture all four books are available from Vintage , reaches back into the African motherland and doses the whole tale with a good bit of juju. It also adds some balance to what could have very well been a heavily weighted equation.
Like I said, Forrest had some very ugly qualities. Yet he was also a mad, bad and very dangerous cat. Oct 05, Steve Griffin rated it liked it. There is no doubt that Madison Smartt Bell can write a first-rate novel; however, in this one, a historical-based biographical tale of Nathan Bedford Forrest, he seems to gloss over, or maybe a better word is minimalize, the darker sides of this southern slave trader who became a confederate general, and after the war, went on to be a grand master of the Ku Klux Klan.
What a great character — There is no doubt that Madison Smartt Bell can write a first-rate novel; however, in this one, a historical-based biographical tale of Nathan Bedford Forrest, he seems to gloss over, or maybe a better word is minimalize, the darker sides of this southern slave trader who became a confederate general, and after the war, went on to be a grand master of the Ku Klux Klan.
What a great character — always true to himself and others, a fount of knowledge and experience, and the vessel of magic brought over from his native country.
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This leads me to think that the books Mr. Jul 11, MisterLiberry Head rated it really liked it. No one ever managed it. Forrest died during Reconstruction at age 56 of diabetes. A tough, crude, ferocious former slave-trader, Forrest was equally loathed and revered, but he was the most intuitively brilliant of Civil War cavalry commanders.
Forrest volunteered as a private and ended the war a lieutenant general. Unlike the self-promoting Confederate cavalryman J. Stuart West Point Class of , Forrest was unschooled in military science but relied on pit-bull aggressiveness, surprise and flawless reading of the battlefield. An able novelist may be exactly what is needed to humanize a historical figure as reviled, feared and dubiously celebrated as Forrest.
In fact, the main recommendation of his own character that Forrest offers in Aug. Regardless, everybody follows Forrest into the maelstrom.
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This fictionalized account of General Bedford Forrest, slave owner, Confederate soldier and leader in the American Civil War, was a fair but generally disjointed account of the life of a heroic but conflicted man of his time. I actually found the brief chronological account of this man's life at the end of the novel more interesting and informative than the main novel.
It is clear that Bell had accumulated a massive amount of research about Forrest, including his life before, during and after the This fictionalized account of General Bedford Forrest, slave owner, Confederate soldier and leader in the American Civil War, was a fair but generally disjointed account of the life of a heroic but conflicted man of his time.