1-344-880 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general, 1862-1867. A successful cavalry commander during the Civil War noted for his tactics of mobile warfare, Forrest (1821-1877) is possibly better known for his role in the establishment of the original Ku Klux Klan after the defeat of the South. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.