Lt. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest
Born: July 13, 1821
Chapel Hill, Tennessee
Died: October 29, 1877
Memphis, Tennessee
Private: July 1861
Lt. Col.: October 1861
Colonel: February 1862
Brig. Gen: July 21, 1862
Maj. Gen: December 4, 1863
Lt. Gen: February 28, 1865
Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
July 1861: Enlisted as Private
October 1861: Commissioned as Lt. Colonel - Recruited and Trained a battalion of Confederate Mounted Rangers
Forrest had an Escort Company which were the elite cavalrymen of his Mounted Rangers. Eight of them were enslaved Blacks at his plantation before the war.
With the fall of Nashville near, Forrest arranged for transport of heavy ordnance machinery
April 6-7, 1862: Battle of Shiloh
July 21, 1862: Promoted to Brigadier General
Summer - November 20, 1862: Commanding Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Mississippi
July 13, 1862: First Battle of Murfreesboro
Fall 1862 - Spring 1863: Raids in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi
November 20, 1862 - Summer 1863: Commander Cavalry Brigade, Army of Tennessee
April 30 - May 1, 1863: Battle of Day's Gap
Summer 1863: Commander Cavalry Division, Army of Tennessee
August - September 29, 1863: Commander Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee
September 18-20, 1863: Battle of Chickamauga
November 14, 1863 - January 11, 1864: Commander West Tennessee, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
December 4, 1863: Promoted to Major General
January 11 - 28, 1864: Commander Cavalry Corps, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
March 26, 1864: Battle of Paducah
April 12, 1864: Battle of Fort Pillow
June 10, 1864: Battle of Brice's Crossroads
July 14-15, 1864: Battle of Tupelo
August - October 1864: Raids in Tennessee
November 29, 1864: Battle of Spring Hill
November 30, 1864: Battle of Franklin
December 5-7, 1864: Third Battle of Murfreesboro
December 15-16, 1864: Battle of Nashville
January 27 - May 4, 1865: Commander District of Mississippi and East Louisiana, Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana
February 28, 1865: Promoted to Lt. General
May 1865: Final Address to his troops
Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKary, 1967. p 288-289
Warner, Exra. J. "Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992. 92-93
Wyeth, John Allan. "That Devil Forrest Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest." New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. rpt.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.