An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford ... company, Forrest rose to command Confederate cavalry in three states as major general.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has come under fire for failing to condemn efforts by the state's Sons of Confederate ... commemorating Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Hollywood Has Street Names Honoring Confederate Generals (June 2015 ... had claimed responsibility for painting over signs on Forrest Street and Lee Street as a form of protest.

The reorganized Klan's first leader, or "Grand Wizard," was Nathan Bedford Forrest, who had been a Confederate general during the Civil War. White Southerners from all classes of society joined ...

Why do Confederate statues divide the ... there of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a secessionist general, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan leader.

As the country debates how to replace Confederate statues, the case of Richard T. Greener offers a way forward. How Memphis transformed its parks named for Confederate generals into inclusive ...