Edited sentence: Although none of those statements can be considered true or false, it's been said that the fort agreed to surrender but the ironclad coming up the river refused to abide by it.It is also documented that a total of at least 3,000 African American men and wemon showed up at his funeral to mourn his death.Nobody knows if this is true though, because there is no actual documentation that he ever did anything with them; it also conflicts with what is documented--Forrest was the first white man to speak for African American's rights