Nathan Bedford Forrest

✶July 13, 1821

†October 29, 1877

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Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general, noted for his aggressive cavalry tactics and rapid rise from private to general during the American Civil War. After the war, Forrest was inaugurated as the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan.

Confederate States Army general, planter, and slave trader (1821–1877)

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