Nathan Forest

Nathan Forrest was born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, on 13th July, 1821. He was born into a poor family of William and Merriam Beck Forrestand was the third child of eleven, but he and eventually became the owner the owner of a large cotton plantation. He was also a slave-trader and the buyer and seller of land. His plantation and slaves led him to become a very wealthy man even though, he was uneducated.

On the outbreak of the American Civil War Forrest enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in Josiah H. White's cavalry company on June 14, 1861. Under the Governor of Tennessee’s idea of using Forrest’s wealth by having him a battalion at his own ex

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Nathan Forrest died in Memphis, Tennessee on on 29th October, 1877. The important thing their raid did was throw off the Union advance on Chattanooga ,which allowed Bragg to move into Kentucky.

In April, 1864, Forrest and his men captured Fort Pillow in Jackson, Tennessee. Johnson claimed that Forrest was the most impressive general of the American Civil War.

After the war it is believed that Forrest helped establish the Ku Klux Klan and became its first Grand Wizard in May, 1867. The fort contained many blacks and white soldiers. He organized the cover for the retreat at Shiloh.

Forrest caused William Sherman serious problems during his Atlanta Campaign. An investigation discovered that they had killed the garrison after surrender, buried blacks allive, and burned tents with wounded soldiers. He took part in the evacuation of Corinth, then was promoted to Brigadier General in July of 1862 and raised the troops needed to have a full brigade. He fought in the battle in Kentucky, but his next independent operation was in west Tennessee. Sherman was quoted as saying that Forrest had to be "hunted down and killed even if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the Federal treasury. Hood for the Nashville campaign and was still creating havoc when Robert E.

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