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Nathaniel Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821–October 29, 1877) was a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. Perhaps the most highly regarded cavalry and partisan ( guerrilla) leader in the war, Forrest is regarded by many military historians as that conflict's most innovative and successful general.
Consequently, debates have emerged wherever Forrest has been commemorated. Schools, streets, and buildings named in the general’s honour have sometimes been renamed, and Health Sciences (formerly Nathan Bedford Forrest) Park in Memphis—the location of the general’s grave—has been the focus of both KKK and civil rights demonstrations.
5 de jun. de 2021 · The remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and leader of the Ku Klux Klan, will be moved from Memphis to a Confederate museum 200 miles away. Skip to content Skip to site index.
15 de nov. de 2020 · Nathan Bedford Forrest - Joining the Military: Having amassed a large fortune, Forrest was elected an alderman in Memphis in 1858 and provided financial support for his mother as well as paid for his brothers' college educations. One of the richest men in the South when the Civil War began in April 1861, he enlisted as a private in the ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest was born on 13 July 1821 in Bedford County, Tennessee, to an impoverished backwoods family. Although he received no formal education, Forrest amassed a considerable personal fortune as a planter and slave dealer before the war, and by its end Ulysses S. Grant had come to regard Forrest as “an officer of […]
21 de feb. de 2024 · Nathan Bedford Forrest was born on July 13, 1821, in rural Chapel Hill, Tennessee. He and his twin sister, Fanny, were the oldest of William and Mariam Beck Forrest’s twelve children. Forrest’s father was a blacksmith and a subsistence farmer who worked hard to scratch out a living for his family in the Tennessee backwoods.
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue is a 25 feet (7.6 m) equestrian statue of Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Now removed, the statue was formerly located on a narrow strip of private land near Nashville, Tennessee, and was visible from Interstate 65 at 701D Hogan Road. The work, by attorney and amateur sculptor Jack Kershaw, was ...
