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See also:FORREST, NATHAN See also:BEDFORD (1821—187.7) , Confederate See also:cavalry See also:general in the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War, was See also:born near See also:Chapel See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:Tennessee, of the 13th of See also:July 1821. Before his See also:father's See also:death in 1837 the See also:family had removed to See also:Mississippi, and for some years thereafter it was supported principally by Nathan, who was the eldest son. Thus he never received any formal See also:education (as witnessed by the uncouth phraseology and spelling of his war despatches), but he managed to See also:teach himself with very See also:fair success, and is said to have possessed considerable ability as a mathematician. He was in turn a See also:horse and See also:cattle trader in Mississippi, and a slave dealer and horse trader in See also:Memphis, until 1859, when he took to See also:cotton planting in See also:north-western Mississippi, where he acquired considerable See also:wealth. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 18151 he volunteered as a private, raised a cavalry See also:battalion, of which he was lieut.-See also:colonel, and in See also:February 1862 took See also:part in the See also:defence of Fort See also:Donelson, and refusing, like Generals See also:Floyd and See also:Pillow, to capitulate with the See also:rest of the Confederate forces, made his way out, before the surrender, with all the mounted troops there. He was promptly made a colonel and regimental See also:commander, and fought at See also:Shiloh with distinction, receiving a severe See also:wound. Shortly after this he was promoted brigadier-general (July 1862). At the See also:head of a mounted See also:brigade he took a brilliant part in General See also:Bragg's autumn See also:campaign, and in the See also:winter of 1862-1863 he was continually active in raiding the hostile lines of communication. These raids have been the theme of innumerable discussions, and on the whole their value seems to have been overrated. At the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and apart from the question of their utility, Forrest's raids were uniformly bold and skilful, and are his See also:chief See also:title to fame in the See also:history of the cavalry See also:arm. Indeed, next to See also:Stuart and See also:Sheridan, he was the finest cavalry See also:leader of the whole war. One of the most remarkable of his actions was his See also:capture, near See also:Rome, See also:Georgia, after five days of marching and fighting, of an entire cavalry brigade under Colonel A. D. Streight (See also:April 1863). He was See also:present at the See also:battle of Chickamauga in See also:September, after which (largely on See also:account of his See also:criticism of General Bragg, the See also:army commander) he was transferred to the Mississippi. Forrest was made a See also:major-general in See also:December 1863. In the winter of 1863—1864 he was as active as ever, and in the See also:spring of 1864 he raided as far north as See also:Paducah, Ky. On the 12th of April 1864 he assaulted and captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee on the Mississippi; U.S. See also:negro troops formed a large part of the See also:garrison and according to survivors many were massacred after the fort had surrendered. The " See also:Massacre of Fort Pillow " has been the
X. 22subject of 'much controversy and there is much conflicting testimony regarding it, but it seems probable that Forrest himself had no part in it. On the loth of See also:June Forrest decisively defeated a See also:superior Federal force at Brice's See also:Cross Roads, See also:Miss., and throughout the See also:year, though the greatest efforts were made by the Federals to crush him, he raided in Mississippi, Tennessee and See also:Alabama with almost unvarying success. He was once more with the, See also:main Confederate army of the See also:West in the last disastrous campaign of See also:Nashville, and fought stubborn rearguard actions. to See also:cover the See also:retreat of the broken Confederates. In February 18.65 he was made a lieut.-general, but the struggle was almost at an end and General See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James H. See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, one of the ablest of the See also:Union cavalry generals, rapidly forced back the few Confederates, now under Forrest's command, and stormed See also:Selma, Alabama, on the 2nd of April. The surrender of General Forrest and his whole command, under the agreement between General See also:Richard See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor and General E. S. Canby, followed on the 9th of May, After the war he lived in Memphis. He sold his cotton See also:plantation in 1867, and for some years was See also:president of the Selma, See also:Marion and Memphis Railroad. He died at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 29th of See also:October 1877.
The military See also:character of General Forrest, apart from questions of his technical skill, horsemastership and detail See also:special to his arm of the service, was admittedly that of a See also:great leader. . He never commanded a large force of all arms. He was uneducated, and had neither experience of nor training for the strategical handling of great armies. Yet his See also:personality and his natural soldierly gifts were such that General See also:Sherman considered him " the most remarkable See also:man the Civil War produced on either See also:side." See also:Joseph See also:Johnston, the Confederate general whose greatness See also:lay above all in See also:calm and See also:critical See also:judgment, said that Forrest; had he had the See also:advantage of a thorough military training, "would have been the great central figure of the war."
See the See also:biographies by J. A. Wyeth (1899) and J. H. Mathes (19o4.
End of Article: FORREST, NATHAN BEDFORD (1821—187.7)
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