Husband of Jane Taylor Forrest Try again later. Weve updated the security on the site. Caph, DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States, Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, White County, White County, Tennessee, United States, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1791-1963, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922, Birth of Capt. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Capt Forrest Tenn Cav Confederate States Army, Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. [170], Forrest testified before the Congressional investigation of Klan activities on June 27, 1871. Tucker. [16] William Forrest worked as a blacksmith in Tennessee until 1834, when he moved with his family to Salem, Mississippi. Forrest sent a full charge after the retreating army and captured 16 artillery pieces, 176 wagons and 1,500 stands of small arms. [57] Again, Bragg ordered a series of raids to disrupt the communications of the Union forces under Grant, which were threatening the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Words cannot describe the scene. Try again later. [120] A portion of his command, now dismounted, was surprised and captured in their camp at Verona, Mississippi on December 25, 1864, during a raid of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad by a brigade of Brig. Year should not be greater than current year. The Forrest family had migrated to Tennessee from Virginia, via North Carolina, during the second half of the 18th Century, while the Beck family had moved from South Carolina to Tennessee around . You can always change this later in your Account settings. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. Indoor handball or rock climbing anyone? Forrest, who was a Freemason,[7] joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1867 (two years after its founding) and was elected its first Grand Wizard. [172] The Klan's violent tactics backfired, as Grant, whose slogan was "Let us have peace", won the election and Republicans gained a majority in Congress. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of William Forrest (8578580)? [213] A major push to change its name failed on February 16, 2018, when the governor-controlled Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University's petition to rename Forrest Hall. [63][64][65], Not all of Forrest's exploits of individual combat involved enemy troops. "[176], After the lynch mob murder of four black people who had been arrested for defending themselves in a brawl at a barbecue, Forrest wrote to Tennessee Governor John C. Brown in August 1874 and "volunteered to help 'exterminate' those men responsible for the continued violence against the blacks", offering "to exterminate the white marauders who disgrace their race by this cowardly murder of Negroes". or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. You have been good Soldiers; you can be good citizens. The historical record does not support his repeated denials that he knew a massacre was taking place, or that he even knew a massacre had occurred at all. Though Forrest had no prior formal military training or experience, he had exhibited leadership and soon proved he could successfully employ tactics. Nearly ruined as the result of this failure, Forrest spent his final days running an eight-hundred acre farm on land he leased on President's Island in the Mississippi River, where he and his wife lived in a log cabin. [121], In the spring of 1865, Forrest led an unsuccessful defense of the state of Alabama against Wilson's Raid. Forrest is often erroneously quoted as saying his strategy was to "git thar fustest with the mostest". With no formal military training, Nathan Bedford Forrest became one of the leading cavalry figures of the Civil War. Nathan Bedford Forrest became one of the leading cavalry figures of the Civil War. Forrest's legacy as "one of the most controversialand popularicons of the war" still draws heated public debate. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Sorry! He was more like a father to them than a brother. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Capt Forrest Tenn Cav Confederate States Army, Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. Thus the whites received quarter, but the Negroes were shown no mercy. [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]. It was evident that he felt this, as his constantly-repeated defenses of himself show. [188] In 1904, the remains of Forrest and his wife Mary were disinterred from Elmwood and moved to a Memphis city park that was originally named Forrest Park in his honor, but has since been renamed Health Sciences Park. He attended Georgia Institute of Technology from 1924 to 1934, and was commissioned in the Cavalry from West Point in 1928. The Klan's violence was primarily designed to intimidate voters, targeting black and white supporters of the Republican Party. The list included the names of 7 officers and 219 white enlisted soldiers. Booth. General Forrest would be remembered only as a daring and successful guerrilla cavalry leader, were it not for the one great and indelible stain upon his name. Explore the catalogue according to effect, room or colour. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. 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. cemeteries found in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. He then mounted a second horse, which was shot out from under him as well, forcing him to mount a third horse. [30][44], Public debate surrounded Tennessee's decision to join the Confederacy and both the Confederate and Union armies recruited soldiers from the state. Please reset your password. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. Forrest had fewer men than the Union side but feigned having a larger force by parading some repeatedly around a hilltop until Streight was convinced to surrender his 1,500 or so exhausted troops (historians Kevin Dougherty and Keith S. Hebert say he had about 1,700 men). [216] Forrest fought by simple rules; he maintained that "war means fighting and fighting means killing" and the way to win was "to get there first with the most men". The height of the monument is 21 feet 6 inches, including the equestrian of 12 feet. [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. occupation of William, Nathan Bedford Forrest's dad. Without in any way referring to the merits of the cause in which we have been engaged, your courage and determination, as exhibited on many hard fought fields, has elicited the respect and admiration of friend and foe. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. He moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee and was living there in 1860. Try again later. Although he repeatedly denied membership even to Congress Forrest in fact led the Klan through one of its most successful periods, when robed terrorists succeeded in rolling back Reconstruction. [141][142] Brian Steel Wills quotes two KKK members who identified Forrest as a Klan leader. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. In June 1862, he assumed command of a cavalry brigade. That Devil Forrest A succession of commanders realized Forrests talent as a raider and used him to wreak havoc behind Union lines. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Historian Court Carney suggested that "embarrassed by their city's early capitulation during the Civil War, white Memphians desperately needed a hero and therefore crafted a distorted depiction of Forrest's role in the war. blacksmith. Leave a message for others who see this profile. On an August Sunday, he met the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Mary Ann Montgomery, and her mother while they were on their way to church. [192][193], Many memorials have been erected to Forrest, especially in Tennessee and adjacent Southern states. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. [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. We have set your language to In a letter to his wife three days after the battle, Confederate soldier Samuel Caldwell wrote, If General Forrest had not run between our men and the Yanks with his pistol and sabre drawn, not a man would have been spared.. William Montgomery Forrest (Son of Nathan Bedford Forrest) Buried in the Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. He was in turn a horse and cattle trader in Mississippi, and a slave dealer and horse trader in Memphis, until 1859, when he began planting cotton in northwestern Mississippi. [171] In Louisiana, 1,000 blacks were killed to suppress Republican voting. 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. It has been said that he never split a family and did not knowingly sell slaves to cruel masters. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. 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. The association voted unanimously to amend its constitution to expressly forbid publicly advocating for or hinting at any association of white women and girls as being in the same classes as "females of the negro race". [169], During the presidential election of 1868, the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of Forrest, along with other terrorist groups, used brutal violence and intimidation against blacks and Republican voters. [73][74][75], On December 4, 1863, Forrest was promoted to the rank of major general. The Forrests great-grandson, Nathan Bedford Forrest III, (April 7, 1905 June 13, 1943) died in the service of his country. William "Bill" Forrest was born in Desoto County, Mississippi on September 26th, 1846 to Nathan Bedford and Mary Ann Forrest. Try again later. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. The native Tennesseean had amassed a fortune, which he estimated at $1,500,000, as a slave trader and plantation owner before enlisting in the Confederate army as a private in Josiah H. White's cavalry company on June 14, 1861. Of the forts 600 men, between 277 and 297 were killed; 64 percent of these were U.S. [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. [124] The ridgetop commissary he built as a provisioning store for the 1,000 Irish laborers hired to lay the rails became the nucleus of a town, which most residents called "Forrest's Town" and which was incorporated as Forrest City, Arkansas in 1870. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. [215], Forrest is considered one of the Civil War's most brilliant tacticians by the historian Spencer C. There was a problem getting your location. 28 Sep1846 Hernando, De Soto County, Mississippi. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Forrests personality and his natural soldierly gifts were such that USA General William Tecumseh Sherman considered him the most remarkable man the Civil War produced on either side. DEO VINDICE". Gen. James Chalmers, attacked and recaptured Fort Pillow. [62] Forrest chased Streight's men for 16 days, harassing them all the way. [85][86] The atrocities at Fort Pillow continued throughout the night. He reported for training at Fort Wright near Randolph, Tennessee,[41] joining Captain Josiah White's cavalry company, the Tennessee Mounted Rifles (Seventh Tennessee Cavalry), as a private along with his youngest brother and 15-year-old son. [13][17] William died in 1837 and Forrest became the primary caretaker of the family at age 16. She was Miss Mary Ann Montgomery, and was. On February 3, 1863, Forrests command suffered a defeat at Dover, Tennessee, while under the command of Major General Joseph Wheeler. Several of Forrests battles were minor classics of cavalry tactics. You can always change this later in your Account settings. In all, the maneuver cost Forrest 96 men killed and 396 wounded. [68] Gould shot Forrest in the hip and Forrest mortally stabbed Gould. [81] What happened next became known as the Fort Pillow Massacre. Forrest believed in surprise, audacity, and nerve, and trained his men to become splendid scouts and raiders. He was paroled at Gainesville, Alabama May 11, 1865. [105] Here, the mobility of the troops under his command and his superior tactics led to victory,[106][107] allowing him to continue harassing Union forces in southwestern Tennessee and northern Mississippi throughout the war. He emptied his Colt Army revolvers into the swirling mass of Union soldiers and pulled out his saber, hacking and slashing. The Union garrison at Fort Pillow consisted of about 600 men, divided almost evenly between black and white troops. Instead, he noted that the state legislature would not be likely to approve the plate anyway. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? Some kept going, right into the river, where a number drowned, and the swimmers became targets for marksmen on the bluff. And if you're looking for employment in the sports and recreation industry, not all . He was the first born of two children. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. 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. The frontier hardships drove Nathan to work hard and to become a successful businessman. [160][161] He said he sympathized with them, but denied any formal connection, although he claimed he could muster thousands of men himself. With only the Mississippi hill farm, Forrest began making changes in the familys business affairs, and helped his mother scratch out a comfortable living for the family. In December 1861, in his first major combat experience at Sacramento, Kentucky, Forrest demonstrated the traits of common sense tactics and close-hand fighting that would characterize his military career. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. [4] Forrest was born in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1871. I thought you might like to see a memorial for CAPT William Montgomery Forrest I found on Findagrave.com. In July 1864, he stood off USA General A.J. Impressed with his gallantry Mrs. Montgomery agreed. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. 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