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Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home, Chapel Hill, Tennessee (2021). Nathan Bedford Forrest was born July 13, 1821 to Miriam (Beck) and William Forrest, a poor settler family living in a secluded frontier cabin near the hamlet of Chapel Hill, Tennessee (then part of Bedford County, but now in Marshall County).
George Tucker Stainback (April 4, 1829 in Brunswick County, Virginia – June 28, 1902 at Dyersburg, Tennessee) [1] [2] was an American classicist and Presbyterian minister; he served as a chaplain in the Confederate Army, and in 1877 presided over the funeral of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. [3]
Bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Old Live Oak Cemetery.. Old Live Oak Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Selma, Alabama founded in 1829 and expanded in 1877. The newer portion is sometimes called New Live Oak Cemetery and the cemetery is collectively known as Live Oak Cemetery.
He is buried beside the family plot of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. [8] Forrest himself was also originally buried at Elmwood, [9] but in 1904 the remains of Forrest and his wife Mary were disinterred and moved to a Memphis city park originally named Forrest Park in his honor, that has since been renamed Health Sciences Park. [10]
His son (the general’s grandson), Nathan Bedford Forrest II, sat with him, along with veterans in uniform. The play began, set during a Reconstruction stylized by Dixon as a hellscape of Black ...
[34] [35] [36] The journalist Lafcadio Hearn attended Nathan Bedford Forrest's funeral in 1877 (two years after the death of Bill Forrest) and reported his observations in the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper, writing: It was a terrible family, this Forrest family. There were seven boys and three girls; the eldest of the sons being Nathan Bedford.
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On March 16, 1864, Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest launched a month-long cavalry raid with 7,000 troopers into West Tennessee and Kentucky. Their objectives were to capture U.S. prisoners and supplies and to demolish posts and fortifications from Paducah, Kentucky , south to Memphis.