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Vor 4 Tagen · Forrest was the greatest and most feared cavalry leader of the Civil War. Uneducated but not illiterate, Forrest was a natural tactician with a true understanding of strategy, and his underlying philosophy of warfare was "War means fightin' and fightin' means killin'."
Vor einem Tag · In Mississippi, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest engages Brig. Gen. Samuel Sturgis at Brice’s Crossroads, south of Corinth, outmaneuvers him and routs the Federal force — even though outnumbered by more than two-to-one. Forrest captures 1,623 soldiers, 184 horses, 16 of Sturgis’s 18 guns, and 176 wagons filled with supplies.
Vor 4 Tagen · Das rasche Anwachsen des Heeres bot andererseits auch die Chance auf rasche Beförderungen. Der Selfmademan Nathan Bedford Forrest, trat als einfacher Soldat (Private) einem Kavallerieregiment bei, wurde aber schon bald darauf zum Oberstleutnant eines Kavalleriebataillons ernannt und stieg bis Kriegsende zum Generalleutnant auf.
Vor 2 Tagen · The group was presided over by a grand wizard (Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest is believed to have been the first grand wizard) and a descending hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans, and grand cyclopses.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vor 20 Stunden · This edition is an all-Southern compilation that includes a featured Q and A with Sam Dickson, an article about General Nathan Bedford Forrest by Gene Andrews, an essay on Southern pride from James Edwards, and much more!
Vor 3 Tagen · In mid-October, a month before Hood's invasion, Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest had moved north from Corinth, Mississippi, to menace Federal defenses. He reached the west bank of the Tennessee River at the Kentucky line on October 28 with some 3,500 cavalry and infantry.
Vor 5 Tagen · As the Union forces under William T. Sherman drove toward Atlanta and clashed with Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee, the colorful and controversial Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest served the Confederacy in Mississippi.
