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The Man Who Might Have Saved the Lost Cause
A portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest, his career as a cavalry leader, and the view of a biographer Andrew Nelson Lytle. Forrest’s successes in Western campaigns, clashes with Bragg, and the debate over whether greater Western strength could have saved the Confederacy are examined, including his postwar life and Ku Klux Klan leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Forrest
Andrew Nelson Lytle
Bedford Forrest
Critter Company
Minton, Balch and Company
Jeb” Stuart
Appomattox
Lee
Jefferson Davis
Porter
Tennessee
Davis
West Point
American Republic
Southwest
Tennessee River
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman
Tennessee Forrest
Jackson
Old Bedford
Old Jack
Bedford County
Nathan Bedford
Texas
Memphis
Yorrest
Kentucky
Stephen D. Lee
Lytle
West
Richmond
Bratton Bragg
South
Fort Donelson
Nashville
Buckner
Murfreasboro
Bragg
Buell
Shiloh
Hogmountalso
Chickamauga
Braxton Bragg
Grant
Johnston
Mexico
General Canby
Mississippi
New York
Ku Klux Klan
Ulmwood
Old Godford
Wizard of the
Western Newspaper Union