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Jeffrey E. Forrest (brother) Mat Luxton (half-brother) Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War and later the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869. Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a cotton plantation owner, horse and ...
77001280 [1] Added to NRHP. July 13, 1977. The Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home is a historic log house in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, United States. It was the childhood home of Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest from 1830 to 1833. It is owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Nathan Bedford Forrest II (father) Nathan Bedford Forrest III (April 6, 1905 – June 13, 1943) was a brigadier general of the United States Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was killed in action in Germany during World War II. Forrest was the first American general to be killed in action ...
Forrest's jail was the slave pen owned and operated by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Forrest bought 87 Adams Street, located between Second and Third, in 1854. [2] It was located next to a tavern that operated under various names, [2] opposite Hardwick House, [7] and behind the still-extant Episcopal church. [8]
D. H. Hill, at the Battle of Chickamauga During the early stages of the Chattanooga Campaign, Bragg ordered Forrest to transfer the majority of his corps to Joseph Wheeler's cavalry corps, which was about to raid the Union supply lines into Chattanooga. Much has been made of Forrest threatening Bragg, the famous story comes from John Wyeth’s 1899 biography: The Life of General Nathan Forrest ...
Crowd at the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument (Memphis, Tennessee), likely attending the 1905 dedication (Detroit Publishing Co. via Library of Congress). This is a bibliography of works about Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877), an American slave trader, cotton plantation owner, Confederate cavalry leader, railroad executive, and Grand Wizard of the First Klan.
Website. Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park is a state park in Benton County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The park is situated on the western shore of the Kentucky Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River, just north of the community of Eva. Established in 1929, the park consists of 2,587 acres ...
Jul. 23—Elvis — er, a Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest — has left the building. Tennessee's Capitol building. Before 10 a.m. Friday, the 44-inch tall bronze bust of the pre-Civil War ...