Editing Nathan Bedford Forrest (section)

===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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