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 ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early Ku Klux Klan leader ... Gloria Johnson, who is white, also participated in the House floor protest. She survived a move to expel her by one vote.
Most corners of the country harbor old or erroneous markers of some kind. An NPR investigation examines the proliferation of Confederate markers and a century-long effort to recast the Civil War.
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 ...
He spoke as if he was at the annual General Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Parade with its host ... including "Best Seat in the House," with Spike Lee, "Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story," and ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest saves his cavalry ... I moved back to the log-house under the bank. This had been taken as a hospital, and all night wounded men were being brought in, their wounds dressed ...
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 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 ...
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 ... Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton (R ...
BEDFORD, Va. (WDBJ) - A house fire in Bedford has been extinguished after two and a half hours of battling the flames, according to the Forest Fire Department. The Forest and Bedford Volunteer ...