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Badlord Famat and HI Crittar Batch A Company Miatoa Campaay" (jen SrcPCtan Zr&yy especially If the lives were those of "hla boys" He was the Ideal cavalryman In hla Judgment of horseflesh and of how to take care of the mounte In his command Nathan Bedford Forrest was born In Bedford In 1821 county Tennessee Little Is known of his life as s boy but what Is known Is mainly a record of conflict of fights with wild animals with bullies of the neighborhood and other evidences to prove that Nathan Bedford was a born fighter In his early manhood he started to Texas to help fight for Texan Independence but arrived there only to find that there was no need for his services Penniless young Forrest split enough rails at fifty cents a hundred sto Then he bepay his way back to Tennessee came a horse trader and later moving to Memphis became a broker In real estate and finally a slave trader In all of which occupations he prospered lie next became an alderman In Memphis after he had distinguished himself by daring as a private citizen to save the Uvea of two mur-- derers when a mob threatened to storm the Jail and when no one else dared to face the Forrest planted himself In front lynchera of the jail holding a and calling out to the mob In a clear firm voice "If yon come ones or tens or by hundreds I’ll kill any by by In this JalL" man who tries to get The result of this firm statement was that the mob of three thousand quickly melted away They knew that Forrest meant exactly what he said After serving one year as an alderman Forrest resigned In 18T9 and became a cotton planHe was thus engaged when the Civil war ter broke out and In Jnne 1801 lngtead of nslng his Influence to get a commission he enlisted as a private in White's Tennessee Mounted Rifles But his friends did what he would not do for himself They decided that the ranks were no place for Forrest So they prevailed upon the Confederate authorities to give Trim s commission as lieutenant colonel end tha authority to raise a battalion of mounted rangers Going up Into Kentucky (both because he could secure excellent horses there and because every man which he brought out of that state which was neutral but was a recruiting ground for both would weaken the enemy's armies government Just that much) he returned to Memphis some eight weeks later having raised eight com650 strong Then began his amazing panies career as a cavalryman par excellence as a natural military genius whose exploits far those of many trained soldiers end as a thorn in the side of one Union general after battle WATSON O HOST Americana the name of Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate cavalry leader mean the synonym for the author of a famou epigram on how to win battles Ilia method waa to "git ) thar fust with the mostest men” ‘But what they do not realize le that Forrest waa more than just the maker of historic phrase a character personally picturesque 4 an unusually successful and leader If the estimation of a eavalry recent biographer Is correct Forrest take Me place among the greatest of all American military leaders a master strategist a well as a master tactician and the man who had It not been for the Jealousy of a superior ffleer might easily have saved the "Lost Cause" The biographer le Andrew Nelson Lytle and hie In the bookr "Bedford viewpoint Ja presented Forrest end Ilia Critter Company” published Batch and company recently by Minton Mr Lytle has ample Justification for his estimate of Forrest Gen Robert E Lee bad a peat cavalry leader with his forces —the dashing “Jeb” Stuart But at Appomattox when Somebody asked Lee who was the greatest soldier la hla command he answered instantly A man I have never seen sir Ills nama Is Forreat” A similar tribute was paid to Forrest Davie twelve years later The by Jefferson former president of the Confederacy and Governor Porter of Tennessee were riding In the fnneral procession which waa carrying “Old Bedford" to hie grave Turning to Davie Porter said "History has accorded to General Forfeit the first piece as a cavalry leader In the War between the states and has named him as One of the half dozen great soldiers of the To which Davis graduate of West country” Point and a professional soldier before he waa sailed to head a new American republic replied "The trouble was that the generals commanding In the sonthwest never appreciated Forrest until It was too late Their Judgment was that he was s bold and enterprising partisan raider and rider I was misled by them and I never new how to measure him nntll I read his across the Tennessee of his campaign In This Induced a study of his 1804 liver earlier reports and after that I was prepared to adopt what yon are pleased to name as the Judgment of history" But to realize to the full the greatness of Forrest one should turn to the words not of his friends but of his enemies Gen 'William Tecnmseh Sherman who campaigned against him In tha Western campaigns never made the of mistake underestimating hla ability and once exclaimed "I am going to get Forrest If It costa 10000 Uvea and breaks the treasury There will never be peace In Tennessee until Forrest la dead!" But he never did get him end the "Wizard of the Saddle” as the adoring Southerners called him went through four years In war without s of spectacular leadership defeat a record almost nnparelleled In history As for "critter company” It la the Tennesseean's name for Forrest's cavalry Early In the war while Union troops were occupying Tennessee Forrest "became overnight their particular Ideal of what a soldier could be They could not understand strategic gains bnt they could understand his particular kind of fighting It waa as plain and as heartening as and corn bread The women now felt that they had a defender They began to threaten tyrannical Union officers with ‘Forrest will get you for this and ‘I’ll tell or Forrest on you’ They soon learned that he was a bogey man they all Relieved In" t The same adoration given him by the people waa given by the men who followed him They referred to him as "the old man" just as They "foot cavalry" did to that leader also called him "Old Bedford” In the same aenee that Jackson'e men referred to “Old Jack" la return he looked after them as a father looks after hla children Nothing made Forrest more fnrloua than a useless waste of lives in a another Forrest knew nothing about military tactics and cared less In that regard he was an Ideal men under leader for the his command Drills and guard mounts were obnoxious to them but their officers managed to get resulta from them even without the formality of giving commands In the prescribed manner Soch expression ss “Men tangle Into fours would Gtt By turn around shock an drlllmaster speechless' but when such were given to Forrest’s men they commands knew what was wanted and they obeyed Forrest had s find contempt for West officers who fought according to rule of the thumb On one occasion after a battle which had been disastrous to the Southern forces and which had been fought according to a plan to which Forrest had been oppposed Gen Stephen D Lee called a council of war Lee asked Forrest If he had any Ideas “Tes sir" said the cavalry leader Tve always got Ideas and HI tell you one thing General Lee If I as much about West Tolnt tactics as you knew the Yankees would whip hell out- - of me every day" As for the thesis that Forrest might have saved the Confederacy from defeat It la based upon the fact that a Lytle savs "the government which first realized that the war would he decided ultimately on western battlefields would hare a decided advantage" and the premise that If Forrest’s genius had been recognized soon enough by the Confederate govormnenb-l- f he "had been given a sufficient force and had not been thwarted by a Jealous superior he might have held the West Indefinitely and tamed the V" But Presiscale In favor of the Confederacy dent Davis and his cabinet their attention concentrated upon the Eastern theater of war and which was strategically upon holding Richmond relatively unimportant failed to see until It was too late that If they lost the West they lost the And Forrest war even though he won victory after victory was forced to see his efforts reby the Inefficient Gen Braxpeatedly nullified ton Bragg to whose weaknessess Davis seems to have been strangely blind even though they were soon enough recognized by other Confederate generals and by the people of the South would take The story of Forrest’s campaigns a volume" for the telling He served brilliantly ' at Fort Ponelson and led his own forces safely through the encircling Union lines to Nashville lleeould have done ss much for Buckner’s entire army had that general listened to him But Buckner didn’t listen and the result was what Lytle calls "a tragedy of errors"— the loss not only of the fort bnt of Buckner’s entire army Forrest captured a large Union force at and made It possible for Bragg to take the Initiative away from Buell In theKentncky campaign He served gallantly at Shiloh at Hog mountain and at Chlckamanga and In Innumerable other actions whers he was unhampered by the orders of his “superiors" he proved repeatedly that here was one Confederate leader who knew how to win battles But always there was the hand of Braxton Bragg to minimize or nullify his success Finally one day he stamped Into Bragg’s tent and declared “You may as well not Issue any more orders to me for I will not obey them And I will hold yon personally responsible for any farther indignities yon try to Inflict upon me Yon have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders I promptly dare yon to do It snd I say to yon that If you ever again try to Interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of yonr life And Bragg did not take the dare The dosing days of thh war found Forrest a lieutenant general (a recognition which had come too late) and placed In charge of all the cavalry In the West— the last organized Confederate forces In that section But by this time his efforts were futile so far as the outcome of the war was concerned Lee surrendered to Grant and Johnston to Sherman and there was no further need for Forrest to lead his "critter company” on those swift dashes which had made him the nightmare of more than one commander In blueJHaftien begged him to lead them to Mexico' to avoid surrenderBut he knew the game was up and suring rendered to General Canby After the war Forrest went to Mississippi to become a planter again— taking as his partner a Federal officer! Later he sold his plantation snd moved to Memphis ne was a delegate to the first Democratic convention and when he went to New York he “attracted so much attention that he could not move about the streets without drawing a crowd”— such was the fame of "the Wizard of the Saddle" In the North When the dark days of the Reconstruction period came upon the South and the Ku Klnt Klan was organized to save it from the regime Forrest was offered the command of the new movement and accepted It It had previously been offered to Robert & Lee but although he refused he approved of the Idea saying that his approval So the Ku Klux Klan most be “Invisible” came the "Invisible Empire” and when the name for a commander was brought up some one suggested "Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest the So h Wizard of the Saddle" became “the Grand Wizard of the Invisible Empire" By 1870 the work of the Kn Klux Klan had laved the South and Forrest disbanded It There were only a few more years of life left for him He died In Memphis October 21 1877 and was hurled In Elmwood cemetery Later his body was removed to a park set aside to his memory n Memphis and an equestrian statue raised over It So Bedford Forrest still rides In the South— la material form In th!sstatue and la Spiritual form In the hearts of the people of Tennessee who still tell their tales of "Old Bedford the Wizard of the Saddle" Unloa1 g© br Wtra NwPr Oar ARTIFICIAL Limb Artificial LIMB Ti CO Arch Support Elaotia Holaery Extension Shorn Established In Silt Laka In 1908 Guaranteed Ph Waa C2S4 — SatUf actio Balt Lake City lit 111 W Third 8 CaUtoca Recent publications of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station at Logan are as follows: Bulletin 7 “Soft Curd Milk” Bulletin 228 we buy and whatever Wherever "Twenty Years of Rotation and w buy we’re always looking for Bulletin So Manuring Experiments" the best value for our money 229 "Production Study of 169 “See If we’ll adapt the slogan Dairy Herds” Bulletin 230 “San America First" and say 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