Thursday, June 13, 2013

December 30, 1861---The Wizard



DECEMBER 30, 1861:        

Nathan Bedford Forrest, in his first action as a Commander, drives off a Union force near Sacramento, Kentucky. The former slave trader, planter, and horsetrader, later known as "The Wizard," became one of the South’s most effective, unreconstructed generals, and founded the Ku Klux Klan after the war.



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