# Nathan Bedford Forrest
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nathan bedford forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive cavalry tactics and rapid rise from private to general, and later served briefly as the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan.
Before the Civil War, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a horse and cattle trader, real estate broker, and cotton plantation owner, and was also directly involved in the interstate slave trade, including operating a slave jail in Memphis. In June 1861, shortly after the Civil War began with the splitting of the United States into the Union and the Confederacy, Forrest enlisted in the Confederate Army.
Shelby Foote and Ken Burns with Court Carney
For this episode, Andrew Houck and I chat with Court Carney, author of Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory, about Shelby Foote and the Ken Burns' Civil War Documentary.
OUTLAWS Ep. 3 | “Clay Allison”
Robert Clay Allison serves under Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Civil War and then drifts west to Texas. He works as a cowboy before starting his own ranch in Colfax County, New Mexico. There, he becomes a feared supporter of the settlers of Colfax County as they battle…
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Civil War Legend of Van Dorn vs Grant | Road Trip to Middle Tennessee 1863
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Civil War battlefield tourism gets a cinematic twist!
In this episode, screenwriter and lead actor Lee Wilson (General Earl Van Dorn) and actor David B. Meadows (Nathan Bedford Forrest) discuss The Legend of Van Dorn film, releasing in August of 2026.
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Slave to Soldier to Landowner: The Sergeant Buried Outside the Wall at Stones River
Right now I’m standing on the largest earthen fortress in the United States, and it’s located here in the great state of Tennessee, about thirty five miles down the road from where a thousand mile walk to Memphis begins. It’s a part of Black history that has everything to do with the Civil War. You…
The Empire - Civil War Generals
The latest episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story turns toward the human architecture of the Civil War—its generals, its illusions, and the cultural forces that shaped the conflict long before the first shots were fired. JB Shreve traces how early expectations of a quick, almost theatrica…
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Discover the hidden stories behind the 49 most terrifying people in U.S. history in this chilling podcast episode, "49 Most TERRIFYING People in US History You Never Knew For Sleep." Dive deep into true crime, American history, and infamous figures whose dark legacies haunt the nation—including ser…
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