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Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company Portraits
Elmo Scott Watson profiles Nathan Bedford Forrest highlighting his rise as a cavalry master and the West's pivotal role in the Civil War. The piece notes Forrest's clashes with Braxton Bragg, Lee's praise, and his postwar leadership of the Ku Klux Klan before his death in 1877 and enduring memory in Tennessee.
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Kathan Bedford Forrest
Forrest
Andrew Nelson Lytle
Bedford Forrest
Fig Critter
Minton, Balch and Company
Dashtog
Jeb” Stuart
Appomattox
Lee
Tian
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Porter
Tennessee
Old Bedford
Davis
Forreat
West Point
American
Southwest
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherén
Bla
Tennescutter Company
Feean
Essee
Bedford
Jackson
Ives
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Bedford County
Nathan Bedford
Texas
Blemphis
Memphis
White
Tennessee Mounted Riles
Kentucky
Theo
Ture
Lytle Ae
Rat
Aerate
Richmond
West
Braxton Bragg
South
Ele
Fort Donelson
Nashville
Buckner
Bret Buckner
Lytle
Murfreesboro
Bragg
Buell
Kentucky Campaire
Shiloh
Hog Mountain
Chickamauga
Grant
Johnosten
Sherman
Torrest
Mexico
General Canby
Mississippi
New York
Ku Klux Klan
Robert E. Lee
Invisible Empire
Ku Klur Klan
Ile
Elmwood Cemetery
Saddle
Western Newspaper Union