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 ...

In my former professional life, I edited magazines about knives and their history. Living in Chattanooga, Tenn., I was immersed in Civil War history. I had a view of the Lookout Mountain battlefiel ...

“Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brutal slave trader and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who, during the Civil War, massacred dozens of Black Union soldiers in Memphis.” Swift also ...

One of the Civil War’s bizarre historical footnotes ... under the command of none other than Nathan Bedford Forrest, the future leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest promised to free his male ...

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for ... some 1,500 Confederate cavalrymen under Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest attacked Fort Pillow, which was garrisoned by about ...

As historians of the period after the Civil War, we know that for Johnson ... and equal protection in the Constitution. Nathan Bedford Forrest was not covered by Johnson’s general amnesty.