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20 unusual facts about Nathan Bedford Forrest


19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

1st Kentucky Artillery

On the following day, a portion of the battery was sent to Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest to assist in repelling the Union advance.

9th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

At 4:00 A.M. on the morning of July 13, the Union garrison was attacked by a force of 2,500 cavalry led by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in what was to be called the First Battle of Murfreesboro.

Battle of Memphis

Another Civil War military engagement also took place in Memphis, the Second Battle of Memphis in April 1864, when Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest led a nighttime cavalry raid on his hometown of Memphis with the intent of freeing Confederate prisoners and capturing Union generals encamped in Memphis.

Dunbar's Guerillas

They joined Nathan Bedford Forrest and served under Colonel Lawton who commanded a battalion of likewise independent companies.

Duval County Public Schools

The case was controversial because Forrest was a slave trader, a confederate General, and one of the founders of the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan.

Elizabeth Avery Meriwether

Minor Meriwether never served under Nathan Bedford Forrest during the war, but they knew each other as former Confederate officers and railroadmen.

George W. Ashburn

Ashburn lived amongst the African American population and garnered attention from the Ku Klux Klan, which established their Columbus chapter on March 21, 1868 after a visit from Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Given Campbell

Campbell entered the Confederate Army under General Sterling Price, and served through the war as a cavalryman under Generals Morgan, Forrest, and Wheeler.

Henry Pleasants

This scheme is quickly accepted by commanding general Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Joseph Karge

His victory over General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Bolivar, Tennessee is the only cavalry loss record for Forrest, who developed a reputation as a superb cavalry leader.

Nathan Bedford Forrest High School

Due to the controversy of naming a school for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, many schools formerly named after him have adopted new names.

Nathan Bedford Forrest III

Nathan Bedford Forrest III (April 7, 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.

Okolona, Mississippi

In a running cavalry clash between Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Union General Sooy Smith, the Federals were defeated just north and west of town.

Philip Henson

A year later in 1864, Henson had the misfortune of being brought to the attention of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest too many times for his own good.

Robert W. Everett

He entered the Confederate States Army as a sergeant in Captain Gartrell's company, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's escort squadron, and served until the close of the Civil War.

Rogers Hall

In the fall of 1864, the residence served as the headquarters of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Timeline of Kentucky in the American Civil War

March 25, 1864 • Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest raided Paducah as part of his campaign northward from Mississippi to upset the Union domination of the regions south of the Ohio river.

William N. Richardson

He escaped from prison, was caught, and about to be shot as a spy at Murfreesboro when "on the morning air there came to our ears with heartfelt welcome the famous rebel yell," and General Forrest with his "critter company" rescued him.

William Walter Leake

The regiment took part in various engagements, including the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, where they were part of the cavalry forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest.


63rd Virginia Infantry

After it became a part of the Army of Tennessee, the 63rd served under, at different times, James Longstreet, Patrick Cleburne, Nathan Bedford Forrest, William J. Hardee, Stephen D. Lee, and Daniel Harvey Hill.

Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War

It tells of the battles between Ku Klux Klan First Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest and Governor of Tennessee William Gannaway Brownlow, the Memphis and New Orleans Massacres, the Lowry War in Robeson County, North Carolina, as well as Arkansas' conflict with the clan.

Albert G. Brown

In the 1994 alternative history/science fiction novel The Guns of the South, Brown serves as the running mate to Robert E. Lee in the 1867 Confederate Presidential Election opposing Nathan Bedford Forrest and Louis Wigfall, and is elected vice president, but is killed during an assassination attempt against Lee on his inauguration day.

Alexander Wilkin

The following May, the regiment marched to Memphis, Tennessee and raised an army tasked with eliminating the threat that Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry was posing to the area.

Battle of Spring Hill

Hood moved through northern Alabama and concentrated his army at Florence from October 30 to November 21, waiting for supplies and to link up with his newly assigned cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Blountsville, Alabama

Confederate forces led by General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Union forces led by General Abel Streight skirmished briefly in the town on May 1, 1863, and Major General Lovell H. Rousseau and his Union cavalry occupied the town in July 1864.

Lincoln American Tower

Freeing prisoners from Irving Block Prison was one of the three major objectives of Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's raid in the Second Battle of Memphis.

Spencer Buford House

The property is also known as Roderick, in honor of the horse Roderick, a favorite horse of Confederate cavalry and irregular forces Nathan Bedford Forrest.