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Nathan Bedford Forrest



In the PBS documentary THE CIVIL WAR by Ken Burns, historian Shelby Foote states that the Civil War produced two authentic geniuses: Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Bedford Forrest.

In the 1994 motion picture Forrest Gump, the eponymous Tom Hanks character stated that he was named after his ancestor General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Due to the character's low IQ, he did not know of the Klan as a racist group, but rather a "club" that rode horses and "dressed up as ghosts". He then continued to explain he was called that to remind himself that people can do things that "just don't make no sense."

In the 1967 independent film In The Woods the ghost of Nathan Bedford Forrest appears and says he is "Happy to have founded the Ku Klux Klan". In the alternative history/science fiction novel The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove, Forrest runs for president of the Confederacy in its 1867 election. John Grisham refers to Forrest in his book The Summons.

The song 'The Decline and Fall of Country and Western Civilization' by Lambchop (band) begins with the lines: "I hate Nathan Bedford Forrest / He's the featured artist in the Devil's chorus."

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References

  • Catton. Bruce (1971). The Civil War. American Heritage Press, New York. Library of Congress Number: 77-119671. 
  • Hurst, Jack. Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, 1993.
  • Ward, Andrew. River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. Viking Penguin: 2005.
  • Wills, Brian Steel (1992). A Fight from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-092445-4. 
  1. ^ Ward, Andrew. River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. Viking Penguin: 2005. p. 386
  2. ^ Hurst, Jack. Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, 1993. pp. 285, 287–288
  3. ^ Commemorating the KKK, M. Lewis and J. Serbu, Sociological Quarterly, January 1999.
  4. ^ Confederate silver dollar site.
  5. ^ Domestic slave trade site.
  6. ^ The New York Times Obituary, Oct. 30, 1877 [1]
  7. ^ Nathan Bedford Forrest Biography at Civil War Home
  8. ^ Tennesseans in the Civil War
  9. ^ Blueshoe Nashville Travel Guide.
  10. ^ General Nathan Bedford Forrest Historical Society,P.O. Box 11141 Memphis, Tennessee 38111
  11. ^ Official Records, Series I, Vol XVI Part I, pg. 805, Lieutenant Co Parkhurst's Report (Ninth Michigan Infantry) on General Forrest's attack at Murfreesboro, Tenn, July 13, 1862.
  12. ^ Bill Slater website
  13. ^ Civil War fact sheet WETA
  14. ^ Bedford Forrest obituary October 30, 1877 in The New York Times
  15. ^ Official Records, Series I, Vol. 32, Part 1, pp. 569-570: Report of Lieutenant Daniel Van Horn, Sixth U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, of the capture of Fort Pillow.
  16. ^ Catton, p. 160.
  17. ^ Catton, pp. 160-61.
  18. ^ "The reports of Committees, House of Representatives, second session, forty-second congress," P. 7-449.
  19. ^ Tennessee Sons of Confederate Veterans.
  20. ^ Tennessee Code Annotated 15-2-101
  21. ^ Scott Barker, "Nathan Forrest: Still confounding, controversial," Knoxville News Sentinel, February 19, 2006.

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Further reading

  • Bearss, Edwin C. Forrest at Brice's Cross Roads and in North Mississippi in 1864. Dayton OH: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1979.
  • Bearss, Ed. Unpublished remarks to Gettysburg College Civil War Institute, July 1, 2005.
  • Carney, Court, "The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest", Journal of Southern History. Volume: 67. Issue: 3., 2001, pp 601+.
  • Harcourt, Edward John. "Who Were the Pale Faces? New Perspectives on the Tennessee Ku Klux", Civil War History. Volume: 51. Issue: 1, 2005, pp: 23+.
  • Henry, Robert Selph. First with the Most, 1944.
  • Horn, Stanley F., Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866–1871, Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith Publishing Corporation, 1939.
  • Lytle, Andrew Nelson. Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company, 1931. Republished in 1984 by J.S. Sanders & Co.
  • Tap, Bruce. "'These Devils are Not Fit to Live on God's Earth': War Crimes and the Committee on the Conduct of the War, 1864-1865," Civil War History, XLII (June 1996), 116-32. on Ft Pillow.
  • Williams, Edward F. Fustest with the mostest; the military career of Tennessee's greatest Confederate, Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest Memphis, Distributed by Southern Books, 1969.
  • Wills, Brian Steel. A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1992.
  • Wyeth, John Allen. That Devil Forrest, 1899 (original) republished in 1989 by Louisiana State University Press.

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