Editing Nathan Bedford Forrest (section)

==Historical reputation and legacy==
{{gallery | title =Monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest | mode = packed
|File:NBFSP Camden TN 03 Museum NBF Bust.jpg|Bronze bust of Forrest at [[Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park]]
|File:MHC Nathan Forrest Monument.jpg|Nathan Bedford Forrest monument in [[Myrtle Hill Cemetery]], [[Rome, Georgia]]
|Image:Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue.JPG|Statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, removed from Health Sciences Park December 20, 2017
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===Specific monuments===
Many memorials have been erected to Forrest, especially in Tennessee and adjacent southern states. Forrest was elevated in Memphis—where he lived and died—to the status of folk hero. 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."<ref name="Carney2001" /> Moreover, a "strong Forrest cult exists among fans of the Lost Cause."<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/blackflagoverdix0000unse |title=Black flag over Dixie : racial atrocities and reprisals in the Civil War |date=2004 |location=Carbondale |publisher= Southern Illinois University Press |isbn=978-0-8093-2546-7 |pages=13}}</ref> Forrest's legacy as "one of the most controversial—and popular—icons of the war" still draws heated public debate.<ref name="Jonsson">{{cite news |last=Jonsson |first=Patrik |date=February 11, 2011 |title=KKK leader on specialty license plates? Plan in Mississippi raises hackles |newspaper=Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0211/KKK-leader-on-specialty-license-plates-Plan-in-Mississippi-raises-hackles |access-date=March 8, 2018 |archive-date=April 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421235809/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0211/KKK-leader-on-specialty-license-plates-Plan-in-Mississippi-raises-hackles |url-status=live }}</ref> {{as of|2007}}, Tennessee had 32 dedicated [[historical marker]]s linked to Nathan Bedford Forrest, more than were dedicated to all three former [[President of the United States|Presidents]] associated with the state combined: [[Andrew Jackson]], [[James K. Polk]], and [[Andrew Johnson]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Loewen |first=James W. |title=Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBZiU_tmRmgC&pg=PA237 |page=237 <!--|quote=Nathan Bedford Forrest stands as the paramount hero on the Tennessee landscape. He gets a bust in the state capitol, a statue in Nathan Bedford Forrest Park in Memphis, obelisks at his birthplace in Chapel Hill and at Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park near Camden, and thirty-two different state historical markers, far more than any other person in any other state in America. Tennessee supplied three United States presidents—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson—but Forrest gets more markers than all three put together. --> |year=2007 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0743296298 |access-date=November 18, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180949/https://books.google.com/books?id=vBZiU_tmRmgC&pg=PA237#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> A Tennessee-based organization, the [[Sons of Confederate Veterans]], posthumously awarded Forrest their [[Confederate Medal of Honor (Sons of Confederate Veterans)|Confederate Medal of Honor]], created in 1977.<ref name="Gannett">{{cite news |date=April 26, 2014 |title=Confederate soldiers have their own medal of honor |work=News Leader |agency=AP |url=https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2014/04/26/confederate-soldiers-have-their-own-medal-of-honor/8205749/ |access-date=January 23, 2019 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180919/https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2014/04/26/confederate-soldiers-have-their-own-medal-of-honor/8205749/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Public schools:''' High schools named for Forrest were built in [[Chapel Hill, Tennessee]], and [[Jacksonville, Florida]]. The school in Jacksonville was named for Forrest in 1959 at the urging of the [[Daughters of the Confederacy]] because they were upset about the 1954 ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' decision.<ref name="Lawinski2015">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/florida-high-school-keeps-kkk-founders-name|url-status=live|work=Fox News|title=Florida High School Keeps KKK Founder's Name|first=Jennifer|last=Lawinski|date=May 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618184355/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,448684,00.html|archive-date=June 18, 2013}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Duval County Public Schools#School board|Duval County School Board]] voted 5–2 against a push to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville.<ref name="vote" /> In 2013, the board voted 7–0 to begin the process to rename the school.<ref name="vote">{{citation|title=Florida School Board Votes To Remove Name Of Civil War General Tied To Ku Klux|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/florida-high-school-changes-name-2013-11|work=Business Insider|date=November 9, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|archive-date=November 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110174531/http://www.businessinsider.com/florida-high-school-changes-name-2013-11|url-status=live}}</ref> The school was all white until [[Duval County, Florida|Duval County]] schools were ordered to be desegregated in 1971,<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Mims v. Duval County School Board |vol=329 |reporter=F. Supp. |opinion=123 |court=United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Jacksonville Division. |date=June 23, 1971 |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/329/123/2596160/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101023139/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/329/123/2596160/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but now more than half the student body is black.<ref name="Lawinski2015" /> After several public forums and discussions, [[Westside High School (Jacksonville)|Westside High School]] was unanimously approved in January 2014 as the school's new name. The Forrest Hill Academy high school in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], which had been named for Forrest, was renamed the [[Hank Aaron]] New Beginnings Academy in April 2021 after the [[Atlanta Braves]] baseball star who had died less than three months prior.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Inabinett |first1=Mark |date=April 13, 2021 |title=Hank Aaron replaces Confederate general in school name |url=https://www.al.com/sports/2021/04/hank-aaron-replaces-confederate-general-in-school-name.html |access-date=April 13, 2021 |website=AL.com |publisher=Advance Local Media |ref=ForrestHill |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414012539/https://www.al.com/sports/2021/04/hank-aaron-replaces-confederate-general-in-school-name.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Middle Tennessee State University:''' In 1978, [[Middle Tennessee State University]] abandoned imagery it had formerly used (in 1951, the school's yearbook, ''The Midlander'', featured the first appearance of Forrest's likeness as MTSU's official mascot) and MTSU president M. G. Scarlett removed the General's image from the university's official seal. The Blue Raiders' athletic mascot was changed to an ambiguous swash-buckler character called the "Blue Raider" to avoid association with Forrest or the Confederacy. The school unveiled its latest mascot, a winged horse named "Lightning" inspired by the mythological [[Pegasus]], during halftime of a basketball game against rival [[Tennessee State University]] on January 17, 1998.<ref name="MTSU2016">{{cite web|title=Forrest Hall: The Evolution of Middle Tennessee's Mascot|url=http://mtsusidelines.com/2016/03/the-evolution-of-middle-tennessees-mascot/|website=mtsusidelines.com|publisher=Sidelines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407015445/http://mtsusidelines.com/2016/03/the-evolution-of-middle-tennessees-mascot/|archive-date=April 7, 2018|date=March 21, 2016}}</ref> The [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps|ROTC]] building at MTSU had been named Forrest Hall to honor him in 1958, but the [[frieze]] depicting him on horseback that had adorned the side of the building was removed amid protests in 2006.<ref name="Lind2017">{{cite web|author1=J.R. Lind|title=Forrest Hall Name Change Decision Delayed|url=https://patch.com/tennessee/lavergne-smyrna/forrest-hall-name-change-decision-delayed|website=La Vergne-Smyrna, Tennessee Patch|publisher=Patch Media|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224141150/https://patch.com/tennessee/lavergne-smyrna/forrest-hall-name-change-decision-delayed|archive-date=December 24, 2017|date=August 24, 2017}}</ref> A significant 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.<ref name="Tamburin2018">{{cite web|author1=Adam Tamburin|title=Commission denies MTSU's request to change the name of Forrest Hall|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/02/16/commission-denies-mtsus-request-change-name-forrest-hall/346998002/|website=The Tennessean|publisher=USA Today Network – Tennessee|access-date=April 15, 2018|language=en|date=February 16, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180944/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/02/16/commission-denies-mtsus-request-change-name-forrest-hall/346998002/|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:P15138coll6 2722 full - Commemorative scroll from the 11th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Memphis, May 1901.jpg|thumb|Commemorative scroll from the 11th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Memphis, May 1901]]

'''Mississippi license plate plan:''' A 2011 proposal by the [[Sons of Confederate Veterans]] to honor Forrest with a [[Mississippi license plate]] revived tensions and raised objections from Mississippi NAACP chapter president Derrick Johnson, who compared Forrest to [[Osama bin Laden]] and [[Saddam Hussein]].<ref>{{citation |title=Proposed Mississippi License Plate Would Honor Early KKK Leader |date=February 10, 2011 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/proposed-mississippi-license-plate-would-honor-early-kkk-leader |work=Fox News |access-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903182004/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/proposed-mississippi-license-plate-would-honor-early-kkk-leader |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jonsson" /> The Mississippi [[NAACP]] petitioned Governor [[Haley Barbour]] to denounce the plates and prevent their distribution.<ref>{{citation |title=Group Wants KKK Founder Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest on License Plate |date=February 10, 2011 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/kkk-founder-gen-nathan-bedford-forrest-mississippi-license/story?id=12888228 |work=ABC News |access-date=June 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111145658/https://abcnews.go.com/US/kkk-founder-gen-nathan-bedford-forrest-mississippi-license/story?id=12888228 |url-status=live }}</ref> Barbour refused to denounce the honor. Instead, he noted that the state legislature would not likely approve the plate anyway.<ref>{{citation |title=Haley Barbour Won't Denounce Proposal Honoring Confederate General, Early KKK Leader |date=February 16, 2011 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haley-barbour-wont-denounce-proposal-honoring-confederate-general-early-kkk-leader/ |work=CBS News |access-date=August 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825231656/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20032216-503544.html |url-status=live |archive-date=August 25, 2012}}</ref>

'''Forrest monument in Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama:''' In 2000, a monument to Forrest was unveiled in [[Selma, Alabama]].<ref name=Cox2012/> The monument to Forrest in the Confederate Circle section of Old Live Oak Cemetery in [[Selma, Alabama]], reads "Defender of Selma, Wizard of the Saddle, Untutored Genius, The first with the most. This monument stands as testament of our perpetual devotion and respect for [[History of Confederate States Army Generals#Lieutenant general|Lieutenant General]] Nathan Bedford Forrest. CSA 1821–1877, one of the South's finest heroes. In honor of Gen. Forrest's unwavering defense of Selma, the great state of Alabama, and the Confederacy, this memorial is dedicated. [[Deo vindice|DEO VINDICE]]".<ref name="Upton2015">{{cite book |author=Dell Upton |year=2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWHdCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |title=What Can and Can't be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-21175-7 |page=34 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180926/https://books.google.com/books?id=yWHdCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The bust of Forrest was stolen from the cemetery monument in March 2012 and replaced in May 2015.<ref name=Cox2012>{{cite web |last=Cox |first=Dale |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument – Selma, Alabama |date=August 23, 2012 |url=http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/selmaforrest.html |access-date=October 9, 2012 |archive-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324015832/http://exploresouthernhistory.com/selmaforrest.html |publisher=Exploresouthernhistory.com |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Edgemon |first=Erin |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest bust back in Alabama cemetery |date=March 26, 2015 |url=https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/nathan_bedford_forrest_bust_ba.html |access-date=June 29, 2018 |publisher=al.com |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630000221/https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/nathan_bedford_forrest_bust_ba.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Forrest Park, now Health Sciences Park, in Memphis:''' A memorial to him, the first Civil War memorial in Memphis, was erected in 1905 in a new Nathan Bedford Forrest Park. In 2005, [[Shelby County, Tennessee|Shelby County]] Commissioner Walter Bailey started an effort to move the statue over Forrest's grave and rename Forrest Park. Former Memphis Mayor [[Willie Herenton]], who is black, blocked the move. In 2013, Forrest Park in Memphis was renamed the Health Sciences Park amid substantial controversy.<ref name="Sainz" /> In light of the 2015 [[Charleston church shooting|church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina]], some Tennessee lawmakers advocated removing a bust of Forrest located in the state's Capitol building. Subsequently, then-Mayor [[A C Wharton]]<!-- no dots --> urged that the statue of Forrest be removed from the Health Sciences Park and suggested that the remains of Forrest and his wife be relocated to their original burial site in nearby [[Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)|Elmwood Cemetery]].<ref>{{citation |last=Brown |first=George |title=Mayor Wharton: Remove Nathan Bedford Forrest statue and body from park |date=June 25, 2015 |website=WREG.com |url=http://wreg.com/2015/06/25/mayor-wharton-wants-nathan-bedford-forrest-statue-and-body-removed-from-park/ |access-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823165158/http://wreg.com/2015/06/25/mayor-wharton-wants-nathan-bedford-forrest-statue-and-body-removed-from-park/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a nearly unanimous vote on July 7, the Memphis City Council passed a resolution in favor of removing the statue and securing the couple's remains for transfer. The [[Tennessee Historical Commission]] denied removal on October 21, 2016, under the authority granted it by the [[Tennessee Heritage Protection Act]] of 2013, which prevents cities and counties from relocating, removing, renaming, or otherwise disturbing without permission war memorials on public property.<ref>{{citation |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest statue won't be relocated |date=October 21, 2016 |url=http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2016/10/21/nathan-bedford-forrest-wont-be-moved/92510072/ |newspaper=Knoxville News Sentinel |access-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902005704/http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2016/10/21/nathan-bedford-forrest-wont-be-moved/92510072/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The city council then voted on December 20, 2017, to sell Health Sciences Park to [[Memphis Greenspace]], a new [[non-profit corporation]] not subject to the Heritage Protection Act, which removed the statue and another of [[Jefferson Davis]] that same evening.<ref name="CommercialAppeal2017" /><ref name="WashingtonPost2017" /> The Sons of Confederate Veterans threatened a lawsuit against the city. On April 18, 2018, the Tennessee House of Representatives punished Memphis by cutting $250,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=250000|start_year=2018}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) in appropriations for the city's bicentennial celebration.<ref name="Lind2018">{{cite news |author1=J. R. Lind |date=April 18, 2018 |title=Tennessee House Punishes Memphis For Confederate Statue Removal |work=Memphis, TN Patch |publisher=Patch Media |url=https://patch.com/tennessee/memphis/tennessee-house-punishes-memphis-confederate-statue-removal |url-status=dead |access-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418204923/https://patch.com/tennessee/memphis/tennessee-house-punishes-memphis-confederate-statue-removal |archive-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref> On June 3, 2021, the remains of Forrest and his wife were exhumed from their burial place in the park, where they had been for over a century, to be reburied in [[Columbia, Tennessee]]. The exhumation and reburial were the results of a campaign that began after the [[Unite the Right Rally]] in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The effort was spearheaded by Shelby County Commissioner [[Tami Sawyer]], an educator and Memphis native who founded a group called Take 'Em Down 901 to advocate for the removal of Confederate iconography.<ref>Shammas, Brittany (June 3, 2021) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/02/memphis-exhumes-confederate-remains/ "Memphis is digging up the remains of a Confederate general who led the early KKK"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808222343/https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/02/memphis-exhumes-confederate-remains/ |date=August 8, 2021 }} ''[[The Washington Post]]''</ref> After the Forrests' remains were removed from Memphis, they were reportedly buried in Munford, Tennessee<ref>{{Cite web |last=Day |first=Echo |date=September 20, 2021 |title=Exclusive: Were General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife buried in Munford? |url=https://covingtonleader.com/news/exclusive-were-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-and-his-wife-buried-in-munford/ |access-date=November 12, 2021 |website=Covington Leader |language=en-US |archive-date=November 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112111616/https://covingtonleader.com/news/exclusive-were-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-and-his-wife-buried-in-munford/ |url-status=live }}</ref> until their reburial in Columbia in September 2021 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2021 |title=Sons of Confederate Veterans 'Put to Rest for Eternity' Gen. Nathan Bedford in Columbia, Tennessee |url=https://tennesseestar.com/2021/09/19/sons-of-confederate-veterans-put-to-rest-for-eternity-gen-nathan-bedford-in-columbia-tennessee/ |access-date=November 12, 2021 |website=Tennessee Star |language=en-US |archive-date=November 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112111249/https://tennesseestar.com/2021/09/19/sons-of-confederate-veterans-put-to-rest-for-eternity-gen-nathan-bedford-in-columbia-tennessee/ |url-status=live |last1=Baigert |first1=Laura }}</ref>

'''Nathan Bedford Forrest Day:''' The Tennessee legislature established July 13 as "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day".<ref>{{citation |title=Tennessee Code Annotated 15-2-101 |url=https://advance.lexis.com/documentpage/?pdmfid=1000516&crid=6790d1f7-f975-4c01-9031-fe26695f2a46&title=15-2-101 |year=1971 |access-date=March 3, 2018 |publisher=[[LexisNexis]] |archive-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172757/https://advance.lexis.com/documentpage/?pdmfid=1000516&crid=6790d1f7-f975-4c01-9031-fe26695f2a46&title=15-2-101 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2019, Nathan Bedford Forrest Day was still observed in Tennessee, though some Democrats in the state had attempted to change the law, which required Tennessee's governor to sign a proclamation honoring the holiday.<ref>Allison, Natalie (July 12, 2019). [https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/12/tennessee-nathan-bedford-forrest-day-gov-bill-lee-signs-proclamation/1684059001/ "Gov. Bill Lee Signs Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Proclamation, Is Not Considering Law Change"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610193456/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/12/tennessee-nathan-bedford-forrest-day-gov-bill-lee-signs-proclamation/1684059001/ |date=June 10, 2022 }}. ''[[The Tennessean]]''. Retrieved July 12, 2019.</ref><ref>Pitofsky, Marina (July 12, 2019). [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/452850-tennessee-governor-slammed-online-for-signing-confederate "Tennessee Governor Slammed Online for Signing Confederate General Proclamation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712233603/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/452850-tennessee-governor-slammed-online-for-signing-confederate |date=July 12, 2019 }}. ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]''. Retrieved July 12, 2019.</ref> However, since that time, Governor Bill Lee's administration introduced a bill{{Mdash}}passed by the Tennessee legislature on June 10, 2020{{Mdash}}which released the governor from the former requirement that he proclaim that observance each year and a spokesperson for Governor Lee confirmed that he would not be signing a Forrest Day proclamation in July 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last=Allison |first=Natalie |date=June 10, 2020 |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/10/bill-lee-no-longer-proclaim-nathan-bedford-forrest-day-tennessee/5336437002/ |title=Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will no longer proclaim Nathan Bedford Forrest Day after legislature passes bill |work=[[The Tennessean]] |access-date=June 29, 2020}}</ref> In June 2020, after black members of the Tennessee House of Representatives unsuccessfully asked it to eliminate a state celebration of Forrest, Representative [[Cameron Sexton]] opined: "I don't think anybody here is truly racist. I think people may make insensitive comments."<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Allison |first1=Natalie |last2=Ebert |first2=Joel |date=June 14, 2020 |title='We're sick of it,' Black Tennessee lawmakers say of long-simmering racial insensitivity at the Capitol |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/15/tennessee-black-legislators-sick-longstanding-racial-insensitivity/5341296002/ |website=The Tennessean |access-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref>

'''Nathan Bedford Forrest bust:''' A [[Bust (sculpture)|bust]] sculpted by Jane Baxendale is on display at the [[Tennessee State Capitol]] building in Nashville.<ref name="UDCM1978">{{cite journal |date=1978 |title=Bust of Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest Is Unveiled |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iU1LAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Baxendale%22 |journal=The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine |language=en |volume=41–43 |page=250 |quote=The sculptress of the bust, Mrs. Loura Jane Herndon Baxendale, wife of Compatriot Albert H. Baxendale, Jr., had also earlier made available a small bust of the general in limited edition. Camp #28 had engaged the services of the eminent Karkadoulias Bronze Art Foundry of Cincinnati, Ohio, to cast the bust for the Capitol. |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181334/https://books.google.com/books?id=iU1LAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Baxendale%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> Brett Joseph Forrest, a direct descendant of Nathan, spoke in support of the bust's removal.<ref>{{cite news |author=Nikki Junewicz |date=June 23, 2020 |title='I support it:' Nathan Bedford Forrest descendant weighs in on removal of Capitol bust |publisher=WZTV |url=https://fox17.com/news/local/i-support-it-nathan-bedford-forrest-descendant-weighs-in-on-removal-of-capitol-bust |access-date=November 19, 2020 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127032916/https://fox17.com/news/local/i-support-it-nathan-bedford-forrest-descendant-weighs-in-on-removal-of-capitol-bust |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Brett Forrest |date=June 20, 2020 |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest's descendant: Move the bust from Tennessee's Capitol – Featured letter |work=Tennessean |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2020/06/20/nathan-bedford-forrest-heir-move-bust-tennessee-capitol/3223290001/ |access-date=November 19, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181336/https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2020/06/20/nathan-bedford-forrest-heir-move-bust-tennessee-capitol/3223290001/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021 Sexton voted against the removal of the bust of Forrest from the [[Tennessee State Capitol]] and into the [[Tennessee State Museum]], but only one other legislator agreed with him, and the bust was removed.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |date=July 23, 2021 |title=Tennessee to remove bust of Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from state Capitol |url=https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_8863974ac941fb71de943c1fa055cf2b |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131035744/https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_8863974ac941fb71de943c1fa055cf2b |archive-date=January 31, 2022 |access-date=January 31, 2022 |website=CNN}}</ref> Sexton said that he believed the removal of the bust "aligns ... with the teaching of [[History of the socialist movement in the United States|communism]]."<ref name="auto1" />

'''Other monuments and memorials:'''
* [[Forrest County, Mississippi]] is named after him, as is [[Forrest City, Arkansas]].
* [[Obelisks]] in his memory were placed at his birthplace in [[Chapel Hill, Tennessee]], and at [[Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park]] near [[Camden, Tennessee|Camden]].<ref name="Loewen2010">{{cite book |author=James Loewen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRtFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA258 |title=Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong |publisher=New Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-59558-676-6 |page=258 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181343/https://books.google.com/books?id=zRtFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA258#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* A monument to Forrest at a corner of Veterans Plaza in [[Rome, Georgia]], was erected by the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] in 1909 to honor his bravery for defending Rome from U.S. Army Colonel [[Abel Streight]] and his cavalry.<ref name="Battey1922">{{cite book |author=George Magruder Battey |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofromeflo01batt_0 |title=A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America: Including Numerous Incidents of More Than Local Interest, 1540–1922 |publisher=Webb and Vary Company |year=1922 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofromeflo01batt_0/page/381 381]}}</ref>
* The [[World War II]] Army base [[Camp Forrest]] in [[Tullahoma, Tennessee]], was named after him.<ref name="Daddis2002">{{cite book |author=Gregory A. Daddis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgQIRQKkJQ0C&pg=PA89 |title=Fighting in the Great Crusade: An 8th Infantry Artillery Officer in World War II |publisher=LSU Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8071-2757-5 |page=89 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181343/https://books.google.com/books?id=CgQIRQKkJQ0C&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> It is now the site of the [[Arnold Engineering Development Center]].<ref name="AEDC2018">{{cite web |title=Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee: An Air Force Materiel Command Test Facility |url=http://www.arnold.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070213-027.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091229205732/http://www.arnold.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070213-027.pdf |archive-date=December 29, 2009 |access-date=April 15, 2018 |website=arnold.af.mil |publisher=U.S. Air Force}}</ref>
* The [[Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue]] in Nashville was particularly notable for its idiosyncratic depiction of Forrest on horseback.
* In August 2000, a road on [[Fort Bliss]] named for Forrest decades earlier was renamed for former [[Base commander|post commander]] Richard T. Cassidy.<ref>{{citation |title=Confederate general's name removed from Army's road |date=August 1, 2000 |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/774778/Confederate-generals-name-removed-from-Armys-road.html?pg=all |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |access-date=October 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031124255/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/774778/Confederate-generals-name-removed-from-Armys-road.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 31, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Long |first=Trish |date=June 5, 2010 |title=Soldier turned down film job to fight, die in Korea |newspaper=[[El Paso Times]] |url=http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_15230015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141021054047/http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_15230015 |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |quote=Forrest Road was renamed Cassidy Road in honor of Lt. Gen. Richard T. Cassidy, who commanded Fort Bliss from 1968 to 1971}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Gate Schedule |date=February 22, 1975 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12709652/ |newspaper=[[El Paso Herald-Post]] |page=8 |location=El Paso, TX |quote=the gate station established on Forrest road is another step in the implementation of a phased traffic control and security program announced last month at Fort Bliss. The Forrest road site was selected for the first of the several gate stations |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210182628/http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12709652/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In 2023, Forrest Street in [[Alexandria, Virginia]], named after Forrest has been proposed by local legislators for renaming.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 13, 2023 |title=Alexandria proposes replacing Confederate street names |work=NBC Washington |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/alexandria-proposes-replacing-confederate-street-names/3444037/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014171452/https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/alexandria-proposes-replacing-confederate-street-names/3444037/ |archive-date=October 14, 2023}}</ref>

===Military doctrines===
Forrest is considered one of the Civil War's most brilliant tacticians by the historian [[Spencer C. Tucker]].<ref name="Tucker2014">{{cite book |author1=A. W. R. Hawkins III|author2=Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr.|author3=Spencer C. Tucker|editor=Spencer C. Tucker|title=500 Great Military Leaders |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZHgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA244|year=2014|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-758-1|page=244|chapter=Forrest, Nathan Bedford (1821–1877)|access-date=February 26, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509162505/https://books.google.com/books?id=SZHgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA244|url-status=live}}</ref> 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".<ref name="Hurst2011p247">{{cite book|author=Jack Hurst|title=Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LIvYI_ER5kC&pg=PA247|year=2011|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-78914-3|page=247|access-date=February 27, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181544/https://books.google.com/books?id=1LIvYI_ER5kC&pg=PA247#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> U.S. Army General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] called him "that devil Forrest" in wartime communications with [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and considered him "the most remarkable man our civil war produced on either side".<ref name="DerbyWhite1900">{{cite book|author1=George Derby|author2=James Terry White|title=The National Cyclopædia of American Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-TkOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA38|year=1900|publisher=J.T. White Company|page=38|quote=Sherman called him "the most remarkable man the civil war produced on either side ... He had a genius for strategy which was 'original and to me incomprehensible."|access-date=January 22, 2019|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181714/https://books.google.com/books?id=-TkOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Fredriksen2001">{{cite book|author=John C. Fredriksen|title=America's Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJlm7AQK-T4C&pg=PA164|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-603-3|page=164|access-date=February 26, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181548/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJlm7AQK-T4C&pg=PA164|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Starr2007" />

Forrest became well known for his early use of maneuver tactics as applied to a mobile horse cavalry deployment.<ref>{{citation |last=Sanders |first=John R. |date=August 17, 1994 |title=Operational Leadership of Nathan Bedford Forrest |location=Newport, R.I. |publisher=Naval War College |url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283415.pdf|access-date=February 7, 2017|archive-date=February 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219222520/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283415.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> He grasped the doctrines of [[maneuver warfare|mobile warfare]]<ref>{{citation|title=Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History|editor1-last=Heidler|editor1-first=David Stephen|editor2-last=Heidler|editor2-first=Jeanne T.|editor3-last=Coles|editor3-first=David J.|year=2002|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-04758-5|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=SdrYv7S60fgC&pg=PA722 722]}}</ref> that would eventually become prevalent in the 20th century. Paramount in his strategy was fast movement, even if it meant pushing his horses at a killing pace, to constantly harass the enemy during raids by disrupting their supply trains and communications with the destruction of railroad tracks and the cutting of telegraph lines, as he wheeled around his opponent's flank. The Civil War scholar [[Bruce Catton]] writes:
{{blockquote|Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use [[motorized infantry]]. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry.{{sfn|Catton|1971|p=160}}}}
Forrest is often erroneously quoted as saying his strategy was "to git thar fustest with the mostest". Now often recast as "Getting there firstest with the mostest",<ref>{{citation|url=http://mason.gmu.edu/~fdillon/military.htm|title=for example|publisher=George Mason University|first=Francis H.|last=Dillon|access-date=October 9, 2012|archive-date=August 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805155014/http://mason.gmu.edu/~fdillon/military.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> this misquote first appeared in a ''New York Tribune'' article written to provide colorful comments in reaction to European interest in Civil War generals. The aphorism was addressed and corrected as "Ma'am, I got there first with the most men" by a ''New York Times'' story in 1918.<ref name=Times1918>{{Citation|title=Forrest|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/28/118141825.pdf|year=1918|author=Times, New York|access-date=October 10, 2012|archive-date=August 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818100733/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/28/118141825.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Though it was a novel and succinct condensation of the [[Principles of War|military principles]] of [[Force concentration|mass]] and [[Maneuver warfare|maneuver]], Bruce Catton writes of the spurious quote:
{{blockquote|Do not, under any circumstances whatever, quote Forrest as saying "fustest" and "mostest". He did not say it that way, and nobody who knows anything about him imagines that he did.{{sfn|Catton|1971|pp=160–61}}}}

====Criticism====

Military historian Christopher Rein takes a dim view of Forrest. While agreeing that Forrest was a skilled cavalryman, perhaps the best on the Confederate side, and tactically shrewd, Rein points out that the latter quality was most evident only in smaller engagements such as the [[First Battle of Murfreesboro]], [[Battle of Brice's Crossroads|Brice's Crossroads]] and [[Battle of Parker's Cross Roads|Parker's Cross Roads]], victories that were strategically peripheral to the Confederate cause and often came through bluffery or at the expense of inferior enemy troops. Forrest's celebrated personal bravery, willingness to lead from the front and get "in the mix" may have earned him considerable admiration in his day from both sides in the war, Rein notes. But those virtues, he continues, are useful to armies when they are demonstrated by junior officers and enlisted men, not generals who must consider the larger picture, as Forrest failed to do when he led troops to [[Battle of Ebenezer Church|Ebenezer Church]] rather than prepare a more robust defense at [[Battle of Selma|Selma]], a loss that effectively ended the war as the Union destroyed the Confederacy's last manufacturing center.{{sfn|Rein|2022|p=61}}

As part of larger formations, writes Rein, Forrest's tendency to take the initiative and fight without consulting his superiors hurt the Confederacy more than once. His failures at Chickamauga left Bragg with a more ephemeral victory than he might have otherwise gained, at [[Battle of Tupelo|Tupelo]] he escaped but at the cost of his ability to mount serious raids on Sherman's supply lines, and [[Battle of Johnsonville|Johnsonville]], despite its overwhelming success, hurt the Confederacy as it led Hood to delay his advance into Tennessee, allowing Thomas to consolidate his defenses for the [[Battle of Nashville]], where Union victory ended the [[Army of Tennessee]] as a force to reckon with, and with it the Confederacy's [[Western Theater of the American Civil War|Western Theater]] campaign.{{sfn|Rein|2022|p=61}}

In the anthology ''The Worst Military Leaders in History'', Rein further contends that the glorification of Forrest and his tactical brilliance by his many defenders, many like him minimally educated U.S. military cadets from the South who have seen him as also exemplifying the Southern virtues celebrated by the [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy]] myth, has had longterm negative effects on U.S. military performance:{{sfn|Rein|2022|pp=63–64}}
{{blockquote|... [G]reat leadership is only one aspect of command. Forrest was certainly a skilled ''tactician'', but great commanders must have ''strategic'' vision, or some semblance of how their victories translate into successful ''operations'' (known as "operational art") and, ultimately, into strategic victory. Otherwise, the commander runs the risk of falling into the same traps set for American commanders in Vietnam or Iraq: winning an unbroken string of tactical victories but never translating those successes into the strategic conditions necessary for a decisive victory.}}

===Fort Pillow===
[[File:The Butcher Forrest and His Family All of them Slave Drivers and Woman Whippers.jpg|alt=The Butcher Forrest and His Family All of them Slave Drivers and Woman Whippers|thumb|This unsigned article from correspondent in [[East Tennessee]] described Forrest as "sallow visaged" with "black, snaky eyes" (''Chicago Tribune'', May 4, 1864)]]
Modern historians generally believe that Forrest's attack on [[Battle of Fort Pillow|Fort Pillow]] was a massacre, noting high casualty rates and the rebels targeting black soldiers.{{sfn|Buhk|2012|p=147}} Forrest's claim that the Fort Pillow massacre was an invention of U.S. reporters is contradicted by letters written by Confederate soldiers to their own families, which described extreme brutality on the part of Confederate troops.{{sfn|Clark|1985|pp=24–25}} It was the Confederacy's publicly stated position that former slaves firing on whites would be killed on the spot, along with Southern whites that fought for the Union, whom the Confederacy considered traitors. According to this analysis, Forrest's troops were carrying out Confederate policy. 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.

[[File:Gen. Forrest shooting a free mulatto (Harper's Weekly, May 21, 1864).jpg|thumb|left|After Fort Pillow, U.S. Maj. Gen. [[David S. Stanley]] published reports describing Forrest's execution of a prisoner of war from Pennsylvania;<ref>{{Cite news |date=1864-05-10 |title=The Rebel Forrest a Cold-Blooded Murderer |pages=1 |work=Buffalo Weekly Express |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-weekly-express-the-rebel-forrest/136248015/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |archive-date=December 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204050526/https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-weekly-express-the-rebel-forrest/136248015/ |url-status=live }}</ref> a news illustrator later created this image captioned "Gen. Forrest Shooting a Free Mulatto" (''Harper's Weekly'', May 21, 1864)]]
Consequently, his role at Fort Pillow was a [[Social stigma|stigmatizing]] one for him the rest of his life, both professionally and personally,<ref name="Cimprich2011">{{cite book|author=John Cimprich|title=Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeFiumliWOEC&pg=PR94|year=2011|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3918-9|page=xciv|access-date=March 22, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181725/https://books.google.com/books?id=BeFiumliWOEC&pg=PR94#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Tap|2013|p=103}} and contributed to his business problems after the war.

Historians have differed in their interpretations of the events at Fort Pillow. Richard L. Fuchs, author of ''An Unerring Fire'', concluded:

{{blockquote|The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conduct—intentional murder—for the vilest of reasons—racism and personal enmity.<ref name="Fuchs2001">{{cite book|author=Richard L. Fuchs|title=An Unerring Fire: The Massacre at Fort Pillow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFRqUSZUEOkC&pg=PA14|year=2001|publisher=Stackpole Books|isbn=978-0-8117-1824-0|page=14|access-date=April 15, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509182010/https://books.google.com/books?id=PFRqUSZUEOkC&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

[[Andrew Ward (author)|Andrew Ward]] downplays the controversy:

{{blockquote|Whether the massacre was premeditated or spontaneous does not address the more fundamental question of whether a massacre took place ... it certainly did, in every dictionary sense of the word.<ref name="Ward2006227">{{cite book|author=Andrew Ward|title=River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLZ3KboxDBwC&pg=PT412|year=2006|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-4406-4929-5|page=227|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509175431/https://books.google.com/books?id=LLZ3KboxDBwC&pg=PT412#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

John Cimprich states:

{{blockquote|The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation ... Debate over the memory of this incident formed a part of sectional and racial conflicts for many years after the war, but the reinterpretation of the event during the last thirty years offers some hope that society can move beyond past intolerance.<ref name="Cimprich2011117">{{cite book|author=John Cimprich|title=Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeFiumliWOEC&pg=PR117|year=2011|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3918-9|pages=cxvii|access-date=March 22, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181906/https://books.google.com/books?id=BeFiumliWOEC&pg=PR117#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

The site is now a [[Fort Pillow State Park|Tennessee State Historic Park]].<ref name="SmithHoffman2001">{{cite book|author1=Darren L. Smith|author2=Penny J. Hoffman|author3=Dawn Bokenkamp Toth|title=Parks Directory of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPMsAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Fort%20Pillow%20State%20Historic%20Park%22|year=2001|publisher=Omnigraphics|isbn=978-0-7808-0440-1|page=685|access-date=March 26, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181937/https://books.google.com/books?id=jPMsAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Fort%20Pillow%20State%20Historic%20Park%22|url-status=live}}</ref>

Grant himself described Forrest as "a brave and intrepid cavalry general" while noting that Forrest sent a dispatch on the [[Fort Pillow Massacre]] "in which he left out the part which shocks humanity to read".<ref name="Grant1895">{{cite book|author=Ulysses Simpson Grant|title=Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VrInAWjWVJ0C&pg=PA411|year=1895|publisher=Sampson Low|page=411|access-date=March 18, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509182018/https://books.google.com/books?id=VrInAWjWVJ0C&pg=PA411#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

===In popular culture===
In the 1990 PBS documentary ''[[The Civil War (TV series)|The Civil War]]'' by [[Ken Burns]], historian [[Shelby Foote]] states in Episode 7 that the Civil War produced two "authentic geniuses": [[Abraham Lincoln]] and Nathan Bedford Forrest. When he expressed his opinion to one of Forrest's granddaughters, she replied after a pause, "You know, we never thought much of Mr. Lincoln in my family".<ref name="carter">{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=William C. |year=1989 |title=Conversations with Shelby Foote |place=Jackson |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-0-87805-385-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/conversationswit00foot}}</ref> Foote also made Forrest a major character in his novel ''[[Shiloh (Foote novel)|Shiloh]]'', which used numerous first-person stories to illustrate a detailed timeline and account of the battle.<ref name="Abbott1985">{{cite book|author=Dorothy Abbott|title=Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4T8zwODNhgC&pg=PR26|year=1985|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-0-87805-232-5|page=26|access-date=April 14, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509182013/https://books.google.com/books?id=C4T8zwODNhgC&pg=PR26#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Adamson2002">{{cite book|author=Lynda G. Adamson|title=Thematic Guide to the American Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FKxZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22first-person%20monologues%22|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-31194-9|page=222|access-date=April 14, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181856/https://books.google.com/books?id=FKxZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22first-person%20monologues%22|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Tom Hanks]]'s title character in the film ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' remarks in one scene that his mother named him after Nathan Bedford Forrest and "we was related to him in some way". The following scene satirically depicts Hanks as Forrest in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, donning a hood and being superimposed into scenes of the Klan from ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''.

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