In all, the maneuver cost Forrest 96 men killed and 396 wounded. [172] On March 31 the Klan struck, killing prominent Republican organizer George Ashburn in Columbus.[172]. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. There was an error deleting this problem. His cavalry destroyed railroad and blockhouses and blockaded shipping on the Tennessee River, disabling and capturing several Union vessels before destroying the Union supply depot at Johnsonville. [169] The party advocated termination of the Freedman's Bureau and any government policy designed to aid blacks in the South. [192][193], Many memorials have been erected to Forrest, especially in Tennessee and adjacent Southern states. Gen. James Chalmers, attacked and recaptured Fort Pillow. [159], In an 1868 interview by a Cincinnati newspaper, Forrest claimed that the Klan had 40,000 members in Tennessee and 550,000 total members throughout the Southern states. From the 1850 federal census, William M. Forrest lived with his father, mother, and sister at DeSoto County, Mississippi. He was the first born of two children. [125], The historian Court Carney writes that Forrest was not universally popular in the white Memphis community: he alienated many of the city's businessmen in his commercial dealings and he was criticized for questionable business practices that caused him to default on debts. Sorry! He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Jane Taylor Cook. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. In June 2021, the remains of Forrest and his wife were exhumed from Health Sciences Park, where they had been buried for over 100 years and a monument of him once stood. There is a problem with your email/password. [201] As an armory for the Confederacy, Selma provided a substantial part of the South's ammunition during the Civil War. [56] In December 1862, Forrest's veteran troopers were reassigned by General Braxton Bragg to another officer, against his protest. Paramount in his strategy was fast movement, even if it meant pushing his horses at a killing pace, to constantly harass the enemy during raids by disrupting their supply trains and communications with the destruction of railroad tracks and the cutting of telegraph lines, as he wheeled around his opponent's flank. Tucker. . Bill joined. [255] After the Forrests' remains were removed from Memphis, they were reportedly buried in Munford, Tennessee[256] until their reburial in Columbia in September 2021 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. [199] A Tennessee-based organization, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, posthumously awarded Forrest their Confederate Medal of Honor, created in 1977. After his bloody defeat at Franklin, Hood continued on to Nashville. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. He sold his cotton plantation in 1867, and for some years was president of the Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad, but resigned in 1874. [15] John Allan Wyeth, who served in an Alabama regiment under Forrest, described it as a one-room building with a loft and no windows. Many of the blacks were former slaves and understood the personal consequences of a loss to the Confederates at best an immediate return to slavery. Nathan Bedford Forrest became one of the leading cavalry figures of the Civil War. Historians have differed in their interpretations of the events at Fort Pillow. [38] They had two children, William Montgomery Bedford Forrest (1846-1908), who enlisted at the age of 15 and served alongside his father in the war, and a daughter, Fanny (1849-1854), who died in childhood. A system error has occurred. [34][35] He also contracted the disease, but survived; his father recovered but died from residual effects of the disease five years later, when Bedford was 16. General Nathan Bedford Forrest died October 29, 1877, at his brothers home in Memphis at the age of 57. [143] James R. Crowe stated, "After the order grew to large numbers we found it necessary to have someone of large experience to command. [19][13][20] In 1858, Forrest was elected a Memphis city alderman as a Democrat and served two consecutive terms. [73][74][75], On December 4, 1863, Forrest was promoted to the rank of major general. Davis transferred Forrest to an independent command in Mississippi. "[123], As a former slave trader and slave owner, Forrest experienced the abolition of slavery at war's end as a major financial setback. The Montgomerys buggy had broken down while crossing a stream, and some local young men were on the river bank laughing and teasing Mary Ann and her mother. reminnessida fr CAPT William Montgomery Forrest (26 Sep 1846-7 Feb 1908), . [90] Forrest's men were alleged to have set fire to a Union barracks with wounded Union soldiers inside[91][92] In defense of their actions, Forrest's men insisted that the Union soldiers, although fleeing, kept their weapons and frequently turned to shoot, forcing the Confederates to keep firing in self-defense. . Nathan Bedford Forrest was born to a poor family in Bedford County, Tennessee. A statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is seen defaced with hot-pink paint on Dec. 28, 2017, after it was vandalized in Nashville. Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 October 29, 1877), called Bedford Forrest in his lifetime, was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. [60][61], The Union Army gained military control of Tennessee in 1862 and occupied it for the duration of the war, having taken control of strategic cities and railroads. [243] An online petition at Change.org asking the City Council to ban the monument collected 313,617 signatures by mid-September of the same year.[244]. Forrest set up winter headquarters at Hopkinsville, in southwestern Kentucky, on December 20, lodging his troopers in floored tents as they contended with the cold and an outbreak of measles. [6], Forrest's most decisive victory came on June 10, 1864, when his 3,500-man force clashed with 8,500 men commanded by Union Brig. The aphorism was addressed and corrected as "Ma'am, I got there first with the most men" by a New York Times story in 1918. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. A Union infantryman on the ground beside Forrest fired a musket ball at him with a point-blank shot, nearly knocking him out of the saddle. In the winter of 1863-64, Forrest was as active as ever. [16] William Forrest worked as a blacksmith in Tennessee until 1834, when he moved with his family to Salem, Mississippi. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? He is remembered as a self-educated, brutal, and innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading Southern advocate in the postwar years. We have set your language to [94] These statements, however, were contradicted by Union survivors, as well as by the letter of a Confederate soldier who graphically recounted a massacre. Several of Forrests battles were minor classics of cavalry tactics. How do we create a person's profile? Connections. Search above to list available cemeteries. Drag images here or select from your computer for CAPT William Montgomery Forrest memorial. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. He thanked Forrest for the offer and stated that had war broken out, he would have considered it an honor to have served side by side with him. There is a problem with your email/password. William Montgomery and Jane had four children: Mary Elvira Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Montgomery Forrest, and James Cook Forrest, who died in 1878 at age four. How do we create a person's profile? Oops, something didn't work. Have you taken a DNA test? Bill joined the Confederate Army June 14, 1861 at age 15, and served under his father, attaining the rank of Captain by the end of the war. [227] According to this analysis, Forrest's troops were carrying out Confederate policy. His descendants were present when his remains were placed in the park in November 1904, and again generations later when the. High schools named for Forrest were built in Chapel Hill, Tennessee and Jacksonville, Florida. Newspaper correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader, who traveled with Grant for three years during his campaigns, wrote that Forrest "was the only Confederate cavalryman of whom Grant stood in much dread". [211] Leaders in other localities have also tried to remove or eliminate Forrest monuments, with mixed success. Add to your scrapbook. Forrest's postwar business career was not as lucrative as his antebellum ventures. [127][128], During the Virginius Affair of 1873, some of Forrest's old Southern friends were filibusters aboard the vessel; consequently, he wrote a letter to the then General-in-Chief of the United States Army William T. Sherman and offered his services in case a war were to break out between the United States and Spain. In early June . This is a cenotaph. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Try again later. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. [234], In the 1990 PBS documentary The Civil War by Ken Burns, historian Shelby Foote states in Episode 7 that the Civil War produced two "authentic geniuses": Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Bedford Forrest. "[253] In 2021 Sexton voted against the removal of the bust of Forrest from the Tennessee State Capitol and into the Tennessee State Museum, but only one politician agreed with him and the bust was removed. Forrest, William William served in the Cavalry Division under his father Nathan Bedford Forrest. In honor of Gen. Forrest's unwavering defense of Selma, the great state of Alabama, and the Confederacy, this memorial is dedicated. In the wake of the Confederate victory at Chickamauga in September 1863, Forrest urged Bragg to pursue the defeated Federals, but he did not. Our Arctic Series Cold Climate Heat Pumps are both the most advanced and cost effective air source heat pump on the market, with the ability to heat your home, office, shop, and pool/hot tub. When Captain William Montgomery Forrest was born on 28 September 1846, in Hernando, DeSoto, Mississippi, United States, his father, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, was 25 and his mother, Mary Ann Montgomery, was 19. Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi, USA. [77][78][79], Fort Pillow, located 40 miles (64km) upriver from Memphis (near Henning, Tennessee), was originally constructed by Confederate general Gideon Johnson Pillow on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, and taken over by Union forces in 1862 after the Confederates had abandoned the fort. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Despite a lack of formal military education, Forrest was known for his keen tactical skills including the use of fast-moving cavalry and hit and run attacks. Try again later. His younger sister, Francis Fannie Ann was born in 1849 but passed away at age 6 in 1854. In the 1870s, Forrests health began to fail, and for several years he was plagued by illness. On July 10, 1861, Tennessee Governor Isham Harris, who knew Forrest by his reputation as a businessman in Memphis, and commissioned him a lieutenant colonel with the authority to recruit a battalion of mounted rangers. A funeral procession formed at the church by thousands of marchers, who then proceeded to accompany the body to Elmwood Cemetery where he was buried. Some kept going, right into the river, where a number drowned, and the swimmers became targets for marksmen on the bluff. Richard L. Fuchs, author of An Unerring Fire, concluded: The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conductintentional murderfor the vilest of reasonsracism and personal enmity. He was the son of Nathan Forrest and Mary Montgomery. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. His only son, Nathan Bedford Forrest III, was a senior officer of the United States Army Air Forces killed in action in the European Theater of World War II. Consequently, his role at Fort Pillow was a stigmatizing one for him the rest of his life, both professionally and personally,[228][229] and contributed to his business problems after the war. Forrest rarely drank and abstained from tobacco usage; he was often described as generally mild mannered, but according to Hosea and other contemporaries who knew him, his demeanor changed drastically when he was provoked or angered. [166] Forrest rode to the convention on a train that stopped in a small Northern town along the way, where he faced a protester who wanted to fight the "damned butcher" of Fort Pillow. [168] The SeymourBlair Democratic ticket's campaign slogan was: "Our Ticket, Our Motto, This Is a White Man's Country; Let White Men Rule". ", "Sons of Confederate Veterans 'Put to Rest for Eternity' Gen. Nathan Bedford in Columbia, Tennessee", Animated History of The Campaigns of Nathan Bedford Forrest, General Nathan Bedford Forrest Historical Society, List of Union Civil War monuments and memorials, List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic, Confederate artworks in the United States Capitol, List of Confederate monuments and memorials. In June 1862, he assumed command of a cavalry brigade. Verify and try again. [85][86] The atrocities at Fort Pillow continued throughout the night. [147][148][149][150][151][152][153], Following the war, the United States Congress began passing the Reconstruction Acts to specify conditions for the readmission of former Confederate States to the Union,[154][155][156] including ratification of the Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments to the United States Constitution. After success in achieving the objectives specified by Hood, Forrest engaged Union forces near Murfreesboro on December 5, 1864. Forrest was the first son of Mariam (Beck) and William Forrest. January is the perfect time to visit the gym, lift some weights, swim some laps, spin some pedals, and maybe even splurge on a personal trainer or take up a new sport. At this, his last public appearance, he made what The New York Times described as a "friendly speech"[177][178] during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a young black woman, he accepted them,[179] thanked her and kissed her on the cheek. Hicks refused to comply with the ultimatum, and according to his subsequent report, Forrest's troops took a position and set up a battery of guns while a flag of truce was still up. [113] Union forces drove the Confederates from the field and Forrest was wounded in the foot, but his forces were not wholly destroyed. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of William Forrest (8578580)? He married Jane Taylor Cook in 1868 in Hernando, Mississippi and they had four children. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. We encourage you to research and . In August, a historical society called Friends of Forrest moved forward with plans for a new, larger monument, which was to be 12 feet high, illuminated by LED lights, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence and protected by 24-hour security cameras. In the hasty retreat, they stripped off commemorative badges that read "Remember Fort Pillow" to avoid goading the Confederate force pursuing them.[111]. Impressed with his gallantry Mrs. Montgomery agreed. Just one grandparent can lead you to many Many in the north, including President Grant, backed the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, that gave voting rights to Americans regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". His uncle was killed there in 1845 during an argument with the Matlock brothers. July 13, 1821. birth date of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Upon seeing how badly equipped the CSA was, Forrest offered to buy horses and equipment with his own money for a regiment of Tennessee volunteer soldiers. Born dirt-poor in the small town of Chapel Hill, Tennessee, on July 13, 1821, Nathan Bedford Forrest grew up with no education except the backwoods skills of hunting, tracking and survival. Resend Activation Email. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. William Bill Forrest was born in Desoto County, Mississippi on September 26th, 1846 to Nathan Bedford and Mary Ann Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest was born on July 13, 1821, to a poor settler family in a secluded frontier cabin near Chapel Hill hamlet, then part of Bedford County, Tennessee, but now encompassed in Marshall County. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. His younger sister, Francis Fannie Ann was born in 1849 but passed away at age 6 in 1854. occupation of William, Nathan Bedford Forrest's dad. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? [175] George Cantor, a biographer of Confederate generals, wrote, "Forrest ducked and weaved, denying all knowledge, but admitted he knew some of the people involved. [198] The Tennessee legislature established July 13 as "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day". In this, he once more took occasion to defend himself and his war record, and to declare that he was a hearty friend of the colored race. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. If so, login to add it. Fort Pillow Massacre Historians still argue over Forrests responsibility for the Fort Pillow Massacre, in which many Union African American troops were killed. The next month, he captured the Union garrison with its stores at Murfreesboro, and on July 21, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier general, and began a long and illustrious association with the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Try again. ). Learn more about merges. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Obituary: Confederate Veteran Magazine-Page 63-Vol.1-February 1893 No.2 Death of Gen. Forrest's Wife-The lovely wife of Gen. N. Bedford Forrest died January 22nd, 1893, in Memphis, Tenn., where she had resided for many years. He was the first born of two children. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. [45] Forrest posted advertisements to join his regiment, with the slogan, "Let's have some fun and kill some Yankees!". cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Please try again later. These lightning blows of Forrests caused USA General William Tecumseh Sherman great alarm. William Montgomery Forrest was born on month day 1846, at birth place, Mississippi, to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Mary Ann Forrest (born Montgomery). Forrest probably organized a statewide Klan network in Georgia during these visits. Forrest's grandson, Nathan Bedford Forrest II (18721931), became commander-in-chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans[38] and a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia and secretary of the national organization. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? Ironically, the Klan Kampus of Lanier later became a synagogue! Tom Hanks' title character in the film Forrest Gump remarks in one scene that his mother named him after Nathan Bedford Forrest and "we was related to him in some way". You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. [192][193] The Sons of Confederate Veterans threatened a lawsuit against the city. [143] The title "Grand Wizard" was chosen because General Forrest had been known as "The Wizard of the Saddle" during the war. Bragg failed to do so, upon which Forrest was quoted as saying, "What does he fight battles for? In Georgia, blacks and Republicans also faced a lot of violence. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map.
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