The Second Battle of Memphis was a battle of the American Civil War occurring on August 21, 1864, in Shelby County, Tennessee.
Attack on Irving Block Prison
General Washburne escapes
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War and was later the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home, Chapel Hill, Tennessee (2021)
"N. B. Forrest – Before the War" from Andrew Nelson Lytle's Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company (1931)
N. B. Forrest, his 15-year-old son W. M. Forrest, and his 25-year-old brother Jeffrey E. Forrest all enlisted in the Confederate States Army on the same day ("Capt. William M. Forrest With a Group of the Members of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Staff" Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 9, 1908)