Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War and was later the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869.
Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a cotton plantation owner, horse... Wikipedia
Born: July 13, 1821, Chapel Hill, TN
Died: October 29, 1877 (age 56 years), Memphis, TN
Grandchild: Nathan Bedford Forrest II
Great grandchild: Nathan Bedford Forrest III
Date of burial: September 2021
Children: Fanny Ann Forrest and William Montgomery Forrest
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Jul 13, 2020 · Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape.