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Born
Nathan B forrest -
Beggining the civil war
By the time the civil war broke out nathan was a millionare one of the richest people in the south -
Ranking
He Became a liuetent colonel in The confedarte army -
He led a calvary charge against the Unions artillirey and captured it at fort donelson
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March of 1862
He became a colonel of the 3rd Tennessee calvary -
Was Back in action
He was back in action in the Battle of Shiloh -
Raiding Grants Lines
He raided upon the norths lines around 1862-1863 -
Battle of Chickamuga
Where he pursued the reatreating Union Army and took hundreds prsoners -
Ranking even higher
Nathan B forrest was ranked to Major Genreal -
Battle Of Fort Pillow
He demanded unconditional surrender or else he would put every man to the sword -
Forrest Big Victory
His Big victory came on when his 3,500 man force clashed with 8,500 men commanded by General Samuel D. Sturgis at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads. -
Raiding in Memphis
He led raids that summer and fall, including a really famous one into a Northern held downtown Memphis in August 1864 -
The Highest rank
He again was promoted to Lieuntant General becoming the only man so far to be ranked so high under Robert E. Lee -
!865 fight in Alabama against the yankees
Forrest tries without success to defend the state of Alabama against Union attacks -
Civil War ends
Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grants Army -
Personal description during the Vicksburg Campaign
Forrest was relentless in harassing Union forces during the Vicksburg Campaign in 1862 and 1863. He also conducted working raiding operations on federal supplies and communication lines throughout the Civil war. -
Leaving the Ku Klux Klhan
He left When the KKK started to get racist and left -
Joining The Ku Klux Klhan
He became a grand wizard for the KKK an organzation for the confedarate Vetrans that acted like cops after the civil war -
Death
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How he died
Nathan B Forrest died of diabetes in Memphis tennesee -
When he was burried
He Was burried on October 30, 1887 in Memphis
