Nathan Bedford Forrest
Confederate States Army general (1821-1877) · United States · Died at 56
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Something wrong?Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive cavalry tactics and rapid rise from private to general, and later served as the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home, Chapel Hill, Tennessee (2021)
Early home of the Forrest family in Hernando, Mississippi, photograph published 1902
"N. B. Forrest - Before the War" from Andrew Nelson Lytle's Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company (1931)
The brothers Forrest, left to right: N. B. Forrest, William H. Forrest, Jesse A. Forrest (photographed after the civil war), and Jeffrey E. Forrest; there may be no surviving photographs of Aaron H. Forrest and John N. Forrest
N. B. Forrest, his 15-year-old son W. M. Forrest, and his 25-year-old brother J. E. Forrest all enlisted in the Confederate States Army on the same day; Jeffrey Forrest was killed in action at the Battle of Okolona in 1864 ("Capt. William M. Forrest With a Group of the Members of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Staff" Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 9, 1908)
Forrest & Maples advertisement in the Memphis city directoryIn their orbit
About this person
Country
United States
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1821 to 1877 · aged 56
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