Have you ever dreamed of metal detecting at a historically significant Civil War site? Our friends Steve Phillips and Robert McDaniel had the incredible opportunity to explore the grounds of General ...

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 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 ...

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 ...