Nathan Bedford Forrest Biography

Nathan Bedford Forrest biography

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NAME: Nathan Bedford Forrest
OCCUPATION: General
BIRTH DATE: July 13, 1821
DEATH DATE: October 29, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH: Chapel Hill, Tennessee
PLACE OF DEATH: Memphis, Tennessee

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Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest fought at Shiloh, massacred 300 blacks at Ft. Pillow and served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Born July 13, 1821 in Tennessee, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a self-taught man who made his fortune as a cotton planter in Mississippi. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he raised a calvary and fought with distinction at Shiloh. As a major general, he massacred 300 black men, women and children at Ft. Pillow in 1864. After the war, he became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.