An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...

Is Longstreet the moral equivalent of General Nathan Bedford Forrest (“get there firstest with the mostest”), who was the psychopathic villain of Fort Pillow, a near illiterate ante-bellum ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest saves his cavalry ... in the Adirondacks. Funeral services for Grant are held at Mount McGregor. At the same time, a memorial service is held in London's Westminster ...

He spoke as if he was at the annual General Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Parade with its host, the Grand Wizard-Marshall David Duke, in Godforsaken, Ark. Maybe Whitey Herzog should've been the ...

and has some suggestions on interpreting the Tupelo Campaign, and for changes to the interpretive markers on the battlefield. Outwitting Forrest is a valuable read for those interested in the war in ...

Powell, author of the very well-received The Maps of Chickamauga (2009), looks at how two of the South’s most seasoned troopers, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Joseph Wheeler wallowed in “miscues, ...

The state only recently took slavery out of the state Constitution in 2022 and removed the bust of KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol in 2021. This latest move is the ...

The likenesses of rebel leaders Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest were gone hours after the city sold them to a private group. Earlier this month, Tennessee state denied the city council ...

Many of the legislators are retired or have other jobs — small-business owner, funeral director ... from the Capitol rotunda a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, slave ...

Forrest Saunders is a Midwest import, happy to be in the Sunshine State after spending his professional career covering politics and a little bit of everything across the State of Iowa. In his ...