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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.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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