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 ...

Tennessee officials voted Thursday to remove the bust of a Ku Klux Klan and Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol and into the Tennessee State Museum. “After more than ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Charleston church massacre has revived longtime controversies over the Confederacy, and in Memphis, the Nathan Bedford Forrest memorial proved to be the city’s ground zero.