# What should be done about Gettysburg? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 17, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-gettysburg/793853 "2017-08-17T05:14:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 109
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-gettysburg/793853/109 "2017-08-21T23:08:41Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > 1. As Richard Parker has pointed out in this thread, the army Lee commanded captured any African-Americans they came across, and enslaved them, whether or not they’d ever been slaves. This is dishonorable conduct by any reasonable definition. Lee surely noticed the presence of Negroes in a white army, but there isn’t a scintilla of evidence that anyone got punished over this. Lee owns this conduct… And Nathan Bedford Forrest simply \*killed \*black prisoners. You know, I think, by an large, that “dog whistles” are mostly imaginary. But not in his case. NBF was a deadly cavalry raider, but a indifferent general. However, there are more monuments to him that any other CSA general, excepting Lee. And you know why? Because he founded the KKK. NBF being lionized is a 100% pure dogwhistle to the ears of the KKK and their allies. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-gettysburg/793853)._