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lie down at a time, above, below, every where twenty or thirty would sit up all night. You never saw sheep so crowded upon the afterguards of a steamboat...The principle reason for pronouncing the slave trade piracy, and hanging those engaged in it, was that the poor creatures were crowded under decks (as we were.) and oppressed by petty tyrants, dressed up in a little brief authority: and I write this that all who feel any interest in the
Mississippi Battalion, may have an opportunity of forming an opinion of an officer whose duty it was (and who had the means at his disposal) of transporting volunteers—American volunteers in the service of their country to their port of destination in comparative comfort and safety, and who willfully refused to do it when informed of the capacity and condition of the vessel, but crowded us like slaves in a slave-ship, in a vessel so filthy as to endanger the health of all on board. ——A MISSISSIPIAN
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resented this remark, and began to abuse not only John
Forrest but all the family in severe terms. At this the cripple raised himself from his chair, and, leaning upon one crutch, tried to strike the officer with the other. His antagonist seized the crutch as it was raised in the air, and kicked the remaining one from underneath the paralyzed man, who immediately fell to the sidewalk. Having full use of his arms, he drew a derringer from his pocket and shot the officer, who for weeks lay at the point of death, but finally recovered.
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24 48" per his personnel record. The nature of the disability for which
Forrest was discharged is unclear. Although Anderson's Rifles were never in combat, he was later said to have been "half-paralyzed cripple, shot through the lower spine" during the Mexican–American War. Captain Dorsey of Company C returned to Mississippi on June 21, 1848, on the
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Forrest, has expressed, in epistolary form, a strong desire to have him released from confinement, saying, that he forgave him, freely and pitied him much for his ill health and other infirmities." Forrest was eventually transferred to
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John N. Forrest was recorded as sick in the military hospital at
Tampico in January and February 1848. Forrest appeared on the company muster roll of March and April 1848, and he was last paid on April 24, 1848. On April 24 he was "discharged by surgeon's certificate of disability at Tampico Mex Apr
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Putting us on board that filthy barque was one of the greatest outrages ever practiced upon soldiers. She was intended for the transportation of produce and horses not men. The men had to sleep between decks, the best way they could, there being no bunks. Not more than three-fourths of the men could
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146:, the second-born of William and Mariam (Beck) Forrest's six sons who survived to adulthood. According to his military discharge record, John N. Forrest was 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall at age 19, with light hair, a light complexion, and blue eyes. His occupation was listed as "trader."
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with his wife. He would put an apple on her head and get out his pistol to shoot. Harriet would always send for her mother; Mrs. Gomillion was the only one who could manage him. Mrs. Gomillion would always get her out of the room by sending her for something, and John
Forrest was afraid to cross
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Within two weeks after the U.S. had recaptured the city, amidst what had apparently been a bacchanal for soldiers and a massive spike in revenue for sex workers, "Provost
Marshal John H. Gould found it necessary to issue a special order stating, 'Lewd women are prohibited from conversing with
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On March 8, 1849, Forrest submitted an affidavit to the commissioner of pensions in
Washington, D.C., recapitulating the dates of his military service and swearing that the surgeon's certificate of disability had been lost. On June 16, 1849, the pension department notified J. R. Connelly, of
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soldiers while on duty; nor will they be allowed to walk the streets after sunset. Anyone of the class indicated who shall violate this order will be conveyed across the river and will not be allowed to return within the limits of the city.' The same day that newspapers published the order,
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Memphis. According to a reporter from St. Louis, the two men not had not otherwise been interacting until Forrest "pointed at his uniform and said 'That is all the advantage you have over me'" and then shot Gillmore in the side. Forrest was arrested and taken aboard the
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on July 28, 1864. According to a history of Grenada in the 19th century, John Forrest "lived for a while back of the Masonic Temple. He married Mrs. Price, who was Harriet Montjoy. John Forrest used to get drunk a great deal and when he would get drunk his favorite stunt was to
509:, who had served in Gen. Forrest's brigade as a young teenager, described a similar incident under the heading "John Forrest, Wounded in the Mexican War and Partially Paralyzed, Shoots a Federal Major in Memphis in 1864." This account conflicts on significant detail of
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540:: "The Yankees captured John Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest's brother, and placed him beside a boiler on a gunboat and burned him because he was N. B. Forrest's brother. This made N. B. Forrest very bitter. John Forrest had to use crutches after that."
370:. The Forrests sold slaves in and around Grenada. As of the late 1920s a Grenada resident named Lida Owens held a bill of sale for "Susan, 17 years old of dark copper color, slave for life" sold by N. B. Forrest on July 28, 1859 to Mrs. H. A. Lake for
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when compared with to story outlined in contemporaneous newspaper articles. In Wyeth's account, Forrest used crutches as a result of being shot "through the lower part of the spinal cord" during the Mexican War. In 1862 he was living at the
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described Tampico as an unhealthy place as evidenced by the sickly look of the returning soldiers of the Mississippi Battalion. Pvt. Forrest and company were officially mustered out on June 28, 1848, at Vicksburg.
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John Forrest's older brother, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and commanding officer, J. Patton Anderson—both later Confederate generals—lived in the same household in De Soto County, Mississippi at the time of the
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According to Wyeth, Colonel Forrest later successfully demanded John Forrest's release and the younger brother was not convicted of any crime. An account collected in the 1920s from local informants in
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Mexican War Veterans: A Complete Roster of the Regular and Volunteer Troops in the war between the United States and Mexico, from 1846 to 1848; the volunteers are arranged by states, alphabetically
491:, "After having been kept in irons for several weeks, he was put into a wooden box, but little longer than his body, bored with holes, barely sufficient to admit the necessary are [
327:(1931), "By 1860, Forrest had demonstrated what success an...energetic man could achieve in a few years by buying and selling slaves instead of beasts and real estate. Since the decline of
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Master's Mate Gillmore survived his injuries, and the war. He went on to become an accountant in Syracuse, New York. The U.S. Congress approved an increase to his widow's pension in 1926.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest's five younger brothers, including John, were "ideal junior partners" who contributed to a "building a formidable slave-trading operation." According to historian
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John N. Forrest was 19 years old when he enlisted as a volunteer soldier in what became Company C of Anderson's Rifles (also known as the Mississippi Battalion), on October 30, 1847, at
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region from July to December 1847. A physician documenting the outbreak volunteered "New Orleans is notoriously a dirty place, but in 1847 it may be said to have luxuriated in filth."
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but makes no mention of John N. Forrest. According to a history of the sex commerce of 19th-century Memphis, on June 14, 1862, three days after the shooting, "the police shuttered a
1981:(Original publisher: J. H. FĂĽrst Co., Baltimore). Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman (Reprint ed.). Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.
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was on Adams between 2nd and 3rd; the open area marked Row served as a steamboat landing where Memphis slavers would load chained people for shipment to New Orleans or Vicksburg
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during his Mexican War service, and it caused him continuing health problems for the remainder of his life. Other Mississippi volunteers contracted smallpox. There was a major
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John N. Forrest lived for a time "back of the Masonic Temple" in Grenada, Mississippi; the building pictured is a later Masonic Temple structure, constructed 1925
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Location of 87 and 89 Adams marked in red on 1870 bird's-eye-view map (streets have since been renumbered; historical marker is in parking lot behind church)
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2087:. The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of the Brandon Printing Company. pp. 382–948 – via
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took over as company captain. Anderson's Battalion makes but a vanishing appearance in the military and cultural history of the conflict. According to the
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wrote a letter inquiring about the medical history of an "unsound slave" (Jim of Wilmington, North Carolina, born 1820s or 1830s, apparently subject to
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escorted the infamous Puss Pettus across the river." Based on her son's marriage record of 1888, Puss Pettus may have been this woman's legal name.
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An unsigned 1864 newspaper article about Nathan Bedford Forrest and his brothers that was published in Northern newspapers in the aftermath of the
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2228:"The epidemic of 1847: or, Brief accounts of the yellow fever, that prevailed at New-Orleans, Vicksburg, Rodney, Natchez, Houston, and Covington"
205:" Sickness was rampant in New Orleans, some 70 of the Mississippi volunteers had been hospitalized, five were dead; "the prevailing sickness is
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recruited and organized Company C, also known as the De Soto Volunteers, but when Anderson was elevated to lieutenant-colonel in February 1848,
2385:"Act of 47-160, WT# 61.430, Veteran: John N. Forrest, 1847, Grade: Pri, Service: Capn. H. P. Dorsey, Battn Miss Rifles, Can. 2304, Bundle 175"
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described John Forrest as a "cripple and a gambler, who was a jailor and clerk for Bedford." Per the anonymous correspondent writing from
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US, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the Mexican War in Organizations From the State of Mississippi, 1847
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184:, and mustered out of service at Vicksburg in July 1848 with 342 men. It suffered no battle deaths and lost 38 men to other causes."
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On January 22, 1848, the "two remaining companies of the Mississippi Battalion" sailed from New Orleans for Tampico on the ship
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reported that Company C of the Mississippi Battalion had been camped in a swamp behind the New Orleans Barracks "since the 17th
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J. N. Forrest's first muster was dated to November 19, 1847, with the official company muster dated to December 8, 1847, at
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in Memphis. In 1966 a grand-niece named Cecil Bradley applied for a veterans' headstone to be placed at his gravesite.
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hotel. After a U.S. Army officer insulted his mother during a visit to her plantation outside of Memphis, per Wyeth:
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he had become one of the best known and richest slave-traders in all the South...his five brothers—in sequence John,
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List of United States military and volunteer units in the Mexican–American War § Mississippi
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that had been titled to John Forrest was sold off in order to repay a debt of the estate.
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in the muster record dated from November 19 to December 31, 1847. On January 10, 1848, the
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Public Women in Public Spaces: Prostitution and Union Military Experience, 1861–1865
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1356:"From Memphis: A Federal Officer Shot, Confiscation of Cotton, Sugar, and Molasses"
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2408:"The Butcher Forrest and His Family: All of them Slave Drivers and Woman Whippers"
2264:"Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest"
597:, meaning a seamstress or dressmaker. Following his death, a piece of property in
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
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Honor, Control, and Powerlessness: Plantation Whipping in the Antebellum South
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593:. Days after John Forrest's death, his widow began advertising for work as a
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named Theodore S. Gillmore while both were present at a facility operated by
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in September 1847 with 445 men, spent most of its war service in garrison at
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Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Board of Health Death Records, 1848-1913
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kept by Puss Pettus...Pettus defiantly reopened her establishment, but the
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1704:"Entry for Theodore Sedgwick Gillmore and Addison R Gillmore, 21 Apr 1892"
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in 1867 at the age 39. John N. Forrest's funeral service was held at the
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described the conditions unfavorably, comparing it to a slave ship:
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was one of the six Forrest brothers who engaged in the interregional
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lists Gillmore as a crewman and describes his participation in the
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2348:(M.A. thesis). Oxford, Miss.: University of Mississippi. ID 1972.
436:..." suggests that Forrest shot Gillmore more or less at random (
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The Bawdy Bluff: Prostitution in Memphis, Tennessee, 1820–1900
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Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Congress
1007:"The two remaining companies of the Mississippi Battalion..."
130:, he worked in family businesses, including as the jailor at
2337:(Thesis). Oxford, Miss.: University of Mississippi. ID 1418.
2186:
Panting For Glory: The Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War
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U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861–1985
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Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945
191:. Forrest was recorded as being "sick in hospital" at the
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Smith, Myron J. Jr. (2010). "Chapter 6: Island No. 10".
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American volunteer soldiers of the Mexican–American War
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American History: Live Salesroom Auction, June 12, 2015
1172:"Entry for Bedford Forrest and Mary Ann Forrest, 1850"
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1337:. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society. p. 63
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US, Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Index, 1812-1855
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J. Patton Anderson, Confederate General: A Biography
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also seemingly describes Forrest's captivity on the
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American slave jailor, disabled veteran (~1829–1867)
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Part V: Military History of Mississippi (1803–1898)
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2326:(M.A. thesis). University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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623:Slave markets and slave jails in the United States
585:her." John Forrest died of a stomach disorder in
1523:"A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican..."
1431:"A Federal Officer Shot in a Main Street Bagnio"
664:outbreak in New Orleans and other cities of the
250:McConnell's Historical maps of the United States
1511:. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 551.
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1763:"Puss Pettus in entry for Watson Pettus, 1888"
2433:"Jackson Barracks Historic Garrison Overview"
2238:(2). New Orleans: J. Cohn, printer: 187–235.
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248:(Map of Mexican–American War campaigns from
1381:"John Forrest, who shot the master's mate"
1305:(Thesis). Boston College. pp. 53–54.
293:map of 1862 Memphis including location of
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2254:– via Library of Congress Digital.
2232:New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal
2113:: A Civil War Ironclad on Western Waters
1227:"Item 168: 1858 letter concerning slave"
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903:"Mississippians in Mexican-American War"
690:The use of the brine, a practice called
142:John N. Forrest was born around 1829 in
2115:. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.
2051:. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.
1571:Chattanooga Rebel (September 3, 1862).
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833:"John N Forrest (Private) 47-160-61430"
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374: (equivalent to $ 42,389 in 2023).
2431:Breerwood, Rhett (December 13, 2013).
2152:Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest
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1573:"Another specimen of Yankee barbarity"
1505:United States Navy Department (1908).
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909:. Center for Study of Southern Culture
901:Hospodor, Gregory S. (July 11, 2017).
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559:closed it permanently a week later."
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2476:19th-century American slave traders
2014:Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
1867:"Mantuamaker: Mrs. Harriet Forrest"
1799:"Entry for J N Forrest, 8 Oct 1867"
633:Tennessee in the American Civil War
2079:"Battalion of Riflemen, 1847–1848"
1344:– via utc.iath.virginia.edu.
575:Forrest married Hariette Price in
132:Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave pen
51:Marshall County, Mississippi, U.S.
14:
1225:Cowan's Auctions (May 21, 2015).
354:In June 1858, T. I. Edmondson of
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2392:Bounty-Land Warrant Applications
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2320:Cole, Danielle Jeannine (2007).
1785:Mississippi Marriages, 1800–1911
391:slave pen of old Bedford Forrest
120:slave trade in the United States
2394:. U.S. National Archives. 1849.
2342:Stokes, Rebecca Martin (1929).
2184:Winders, Richard Bruce (2016).
1721:United States Congress (1926).
1070:NARA 654520, Mississippi (2011)
1058:NARA 654520, Mississippi (2011)
939:NARA 654520, Mississippi (2011)
927:NARA 654520, Mississippi (2011)
820:NARA 654520, Mississippi (2011)
783:NARA 654520, Mississippi (2011)
618:History of slavery in Tennessee
563:Marriage, death, burial, estate
460:On June 6, 1862, following the
299:Memphis and Hernando plank road
2345:History of Grenada (1830–1880)
2096:Robarts, William Hugh (1887).
1978:Slave Trading in the Old South
1923:. December 21, 1867. p. 3
1917:"A New Livery and Sale Stable"
1898:. December 14, 1867. p. 3
656:J. Patton Anderson contracted
324:Slave-Trading in the Old South
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2016:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
1873:. October 12, 1867. p. 2
1767:Virginia Marriages, 1785–1940
1012:. January 31, 1848. p. 1
961:. January 12, 1848. p. 2
577:Yalobusha County, Mississippi
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1848:. October 8, 1867. p. 2
1823:. October 9, 1867. p. 8
487:after the shooting. Per the
236:Detail showing the mouth of
144:Marshall County, Mississippi
126:. A disabled veteran of the
1485:The Memphis Daily Avalanche
1123:"The Mississippi Battalion"
1034:"The Mississippi Battalion"
549:Battle of Island Number Ten
505:Bedford Forrest biographer
356:Carroll County, Mississippi
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2331:Smith, Aran Tyson (2016).
1577:The Natchez Weekly Courier
1553:. June 20, 1862. p. 2
1528:. June 21, 1862. p. 3
1487:. June 26, 1862. p. 3
1437:. June 12, 1862. p. 2
1412:. June 13, 1862. p. 2
1387:. June 14, 1862. p. 2
1362:. June 16, 1862. p. 1
1176:United States Census, 1850
1159:Land warrant papers (1849)
1147:Land warrant papers (1849)
1129:. June 27, 1848. p. 2
1104:. June 26, 1848. p. 2
1040:. March 1, 1848. p. 1
1038:The Natchez Weekly Courier
802:. March 3, 1848. p. 4
750:Land warrant papers (1849)
499:Memphis Daily Union Appeal
414:anchored somewhere in the
160:DeSoto County, Mississippi
2155:. Harper & Brothers.
1805:– via FamilySearch.
1787:– via FamilySearch.
1769:– via FamilySearch.
1629:. July 1, 1862. p. 1
1604:. July 4, 1862. p. 3
1462:. July 4, 1862. p. 3
1334:American Slavery As It Is
1299:Dickman, Michael (2015).
1283:Knoxville correspondent,
959:Vicksburg Weekly Sentinel
329:Bolton, Dickens & Co.
30:
1710:– via FamilySearch
1178:– via FamilySearch
1102:New Orleans Weekly Delta
955:"Mississippi Volunteers"
907:Mississippi Encyclopedia
800:The Weekly Mississippian
587:Shelby County, Tennessee
432:"A correspondent of the
173:Mississippi Encyclopedia
70:Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
2047:Raab, James W. (2004).
796:"Mississippi Battalion"
462:First Battle of Memphis
2491:Nathan Bedford Forrest
2437:New Orleans Historical
2226:Fenner, E. D. (1848).
1781:"John N. Forest, 1864"
1240:– via issuu.com.
604:Forrest was buried in
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454:Natchez Weekly Courier
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402:1862 shooting incident
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88:Nathan Bedford Forrest
2282:10.1353/cwh.2023.0009
839:– via Fold3.com
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220:Natchez Daily Courier
158:, the county seat of
134:in downtown Memphis.
2496:Burials in Tennessee
2452:at Wikimedia Commons
2406:n.a. (May 4, 1864).
2012:Hurst, Jack (1993).
1921:The Grenada Sentinel
1896:The Grenada Sentinel
1871:The Grenada Sentinel
1410:Memphis Daily Appeal
1385:Memphis Daily Appeal
1127:Vicksburg Daily Whig
599:Grenada, Mississippi
534:Grenada, Mississippi
456:, September 3, 1862)
434:St. Louis Republican
379:Fort Pillow massacre
364:Grenada, Mississippi
303:Forrest's slave jail
263:Vicksburg Daily Whig
252:, LOC 2009581130-29)
193:New Orleans Barracks
150:Mexican–American War
128:Mexican–American War
2260:Huebner, Timothy S.
1435:Memphis Daily Argus
864:, pp. 417–418.
366:, in what was then
242:Tampico, Tamaulipas
2400:Newspaper articles
2314:Unpublished theses
1973:Bancroft, Frederic
1821:Memphis Daily Post
1602:Daily Union Appeal
1526:Nebraska City News
1460:Daily Union Appeal
1215:, p. 262–263.
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515:fight choreography
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438:Nebraska City News
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