MILITARY PERSONNEL

Nathan Bedford Forrest

1821 - 1877

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Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869. Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a horse and cattle trader, real estate broker, slave jail operator, interstate slave trader, and cotton plantation owner. In June 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and became one of the few soldiers during the war to enlist as a private and be promoted to general without previous military training. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nathan Bedford Forrest has received more than 5,853,392 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Nathan Bedford Forrest is the 521st most popular military personnel (down from 414th in 2019), the 1,498th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,161st in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nathan Bedford Forrest ranks 521 out of 2,058. Before him are Gao Shun, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Adem Jashari, Stonewall Jackson, Bo'orchu, and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff. After him are Ernst Lindemann, Dmitry Pozharsky, Roger of Lauria, Stepa Stepanović, Živojin Mišić, and Jacques MacDonald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Nathan Bedford Forrest ranks 22. Before him are Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Andrew Kim Taegon, Anita Garibaldi, Nikolay Nekrasov, Wilhelm Tempel, and Heinrich Barth. After him are Sebastian Kneipp, Giovanni Bottesini, Bartolomé Mitre, Eduard Heine, Henry Thomas Buckle, and Leon Pinsker. Among people deceased in 1877, Nathan Bedford Forrest ranks 17. Before him are Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Yaqub Beg, and Hermann Grassmann. After him are Antoine Augustin Cournot, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Constantine Kanaris, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, Kido Takayoshi, and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nathan Bedford Forrest ranks 1,498 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas J. Sargent (1943), Stonewall Jackson (1824), William Nordhaus (1941), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Herbert Blomstedt (1927), and David Graf (1950). After him are Merton Miller (1923), Kalākaua (1836), Macaulay Culkin (1980), Patrick McGoohan (1928), Paul Greengard (1925), and Matt LeBlanc (1967).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Nathan Bedford Forrest ranks 19. Before him are Richard Winters (1918), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), Charles Sweeney (1919), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), William Westmoreland (1914), and Stonewall Jackson (1824). After him are Creighton Abrams (1914), Paul Revere (1735), Raymond A. Spruance (1886), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), Husband E. Kimmel (1882), and Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915).

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