Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brilliant Confederate cavalry commander born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. Renowned for innovative guerrilla tactics and lightning raids, he operated without formal military training before later engaging in rail business.

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Year Nathan Bedford Forrest
1821
Birth of Nathan Bedford Forrest (Period: July 13, 1821, Location: Chapel Hill, Tennessee, United States)
1830
Early family support and move to Mississippi (Nathan Bedford Forrest, Age: 8 years old, Period: 1830s–1841, Location: Chapel Hill, Tennessee and Salem, Mississippi)
1840
Building wealth through the slave trade and plantation management (Nathan Bedford Forrest, Age: 18 years old, Period: 1840s–1860, Location: Hernando, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, and the Mississippi Delta region)
1845
Killing of Jonathan Forrest and feud with the Matlock brothers (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1845, Location: Hernando, Mississippi)
Marriage (Nathan Bedford Forrest, Mary Ann Montgomery, Age: 24 years old, Period: September 25, 1845, Location: DeSoto County and Hernando, Mississippi, United States)
1861
American Civil War (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.)
Enlistment as a private in the Confederate Army (Nathan Bedford Forrest, Age: 39 years old, Period: June–July 1861, Location: Tennessee)
1862
Escape from Fort Donelson (Nathan Bedford Forrest, Age: 40 years old, Period: February 1862, Location: Fort Donelson, Tennessee)
Murfreesboro raid (Age: 40 years old, Period: July 1862, Location: Murfreesboro, Tennessee)
1864
Fort Pillow incident and massacre (Age: 42 years old, Period: April 12, 1864, Location: Fort Pillow, Tennessee)
Battle of Brice's Crossroads (Age: 42 years old, Period: June 10, 1864, Location: Brice's Crossroads, Mississippi)
Battle of Tupelo (Age: 43 years old, Period: July 14–15, 1864, Location: Tupelo, Mississippi)
Memphis raid (Age: 43 years old, Period: August 21, 1864, Location: Memphis, Tennessee)
Johnsonville raid (Age: 43 years old, Period: November 4–5, 1864, Location: Johnsonville, Tennessee)
1865
Post-war railroad management (Nathan Bedford Forrest, Age: 43 years old, Period: 1865–1877, Location: Vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee)
Battle of Selma (Age: 43 years old, Period: April 2, 1865, Location: Selma, Alabama)
1866
Appointment as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (Nathan Bedford Forrest, Age: 44 years old, Period: 1866–1868 approx., Location: Nashville and various locations across Tennessee)
1877
Death of Nathan Bedford Forrest (Age: 56 years old, Period: October 29, 1877)

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Key Confederate Officers Thomas Jonathan Jackson James Longstreet Joseph Egleston Johnston Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Braxton Bragg John Bell Hood Jubal Anderson Early Nathan Bedford Forrest John Brown Gordon
The Lee family Robert E. Lee George Washington Custis Lee William Henry Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee Robert Edward Lee Jr.
Southern politician Jefferson Finis Davis Alexander Hamilton Stephens Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter John Cabell Breckinridge Judah Philip Benjamin John Henninger Reagan Wade Hampton III Francis Richard Lubbock Luke Pryor Blackburn Joseph Emerson Brown Alfred Holt Colquitt James Lawson Kemper Zebulon Baird Vance

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