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8 de oct. de 2017 · Nathan Bedford Forrest, the “wizard of the saddle,” was one of the finest Confederate cavalry commanders and one of the foremost military figures produced by the state of Tennessee. He was particularly famous for his determination to be “first with the most men.”. He was born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, on July 13, 1821.
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 […]
Nathan Bedford Forrest (Chapel Hill, Tennessee, 1821 - Memphis, Tennessee, 1877) fou un oficial sudista. De formació autodidacta, fou comerciant de ramat, cavalls i esclaus. Quan esclatà la guerra de secessió , assolí el grau de tinent coronel de cavalleria i lluità a les batalles de Fort Donelson ( 1862 ) i Shiloh , després de la qual fou nomenat general.
7 de dic. de 2021 · A statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is seen defaced with hot-pink paint on Dec. 28, 2017, after it was vandalized in Nashville.
C onfederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape. There’s a statue of him overlooking a cemetery in Rome, Ga ...
19 de jun. de 2021 · Jack Hurst, author of “Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” says Forrest was the only soldier on either side to rise from private to lieutenant general. In April 1864, Forrest’s troops attacked Fort Pillow in northwest Tennessee and killed an estimated 200 to 300 Union soldiers, most of them Black.
Nathan Bedford Forrest murió el 29 de octubre de 1877, en la ciudad de Menphis, Tennessee. Legado. A pesar de la corrección política, varios monumentos y estatuas han sido erigidos en Estados Unidos. Hay 32 monumentos en su honor en el estado de Tennessee.
