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| South |
| 1821-1877 |
| Tennessee
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| Cavalry Officer |
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An uneducated farm-boy who became
the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer,
Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 29 horses shot
out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted
rifle company, Forrest rose to command Confederate cavalry
in three states as major general. But his tactical genius
was clouded by his savage 1864 attack on Fort Pillow
and his postwar career as a Ku Klux Klan leader. |
