# Bibliography of Nathan Bedford Forrest

This is a bibliography of works about Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877), an American slave trader, cotton plantation owner, Confederate cavalry leader, railroad executive, and Grand Wizard of the First Klan.

## Books

* Ashdown, Paul; Caudill, Edward (2005). The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest. American Crisis Series. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4300-3.
* Bancroft, Frederic (2023) [1931, 1996]. "Memphis: The Boltons, the Forrests and Others". Slave Trading in the Old South (Original publisher: J. H. Fürst Co., Baltimore). Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman (Reprint ed.). Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-64336-427-8. LCCN 95020493. OCLC 1153619151.
* Browning, Robert M. Jr. (2004). Forrest: The Confederacy's Relentless Warrior. Brassey's Military Profiles. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-57488-625-2.
* Davison, Eddy W. (2007). Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58980-415-9.
* Carney, Court (2024). Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807183090. Project MUSE book 124518.
* Hearn, Lafcadio (1925). "Notes on Forrest's Funeral". In Mordell, Albert (ed.). Occidental Gleanings. Vol. 1. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. pp. 144–155. LCCN 25018716. OCLC 290757.
* Henry, R. Selph (1944). "First with the most": Forrest. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. LCCN 44009824.
* Hurst, Jack (2012). Born to Battle – Grant and Forrest – Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02018-8.
* Hurst, Jack (1993). Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-78914-3. LCCN 92054383. OCLC 26314678.
* Jordon, Gen. Thomas; Pryor, J.P. (1868). The campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry. New Orleans, New York: Blelock & Co. LCCN 02017133.
* Lytle, Andrew Nelson (1992) [1931]. Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company (Original publisher: Minton, Balch & Co., New York). Southern Classics Series. Preface by Walter Sullivan. Nashville: J. S. Sanders & Company. ISBN 978-1-4616-3270-2. LCCN 91067518. OCLC 828870070.
* Mackey, Robert R. (2014). The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865. Campaigns and Commanders Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4804-5.
* Mathes, J. Harvey (1902). General Forrest. The Great Commanders. New York: D. Appleton & Co. LCCN 02011126.
* Mooney, Chase C. (1971) [1957]. "Chapter Two: Hire, Sale, Theft and Flight of Slaves". Slavery in Tennessee. Indiana University Publications, Social Science Series No. 17 (Reprint ed.). Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press. p. 50. OCLC 609222448.
* Morton, J. Watson (1909). The artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry, "the wizard of the saddle". Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing house of the M.E. church, South, Smith & Lamar, agents. LCCN 10001077. OCLC 1591230.
* Wills, Brian Steel (1992). A battle from the start: the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-016832-2.
* Wills, Brian Steel (2014). The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4604-1.
* Wyeth, John Allan (1899). Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Harper & Brothers. LCCN 99004134. OCLC 889557. OL 529441M.
* Young, J. Preston (1890). The Seventh Tennessee Cavalry (Confederate): a history. Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing house of the M. E. Church, South. Barbee & Smith, agents. LCCN 04018962. OCLC 4599205.

## Journal articles

* Alexander, Thomas B. (1949). "Kukluxism in Tennessee, 1865–1869". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 8 (3): 195–219. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42621013.
* Carney, Court (August 2001). "The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest". The Journal of Southern History. 67 (3): 601–630. doi:10.2307/3070019. JSTOR 3070019.
* Davis, Robert Ralph (1971). "Buchanian Espionage: A Report on Illegal Slave Trading in the South in 1859". The Journal of Southern History. 37 (2): 271–278. doi:10.2307/2205824. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 2205824.
* Eiland, Sarah W. (2020). "The Unspoken Demands of Slavery: The Exploitation of Female Slaves in the Memphis Slave Trade". The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era. 10 (6): 38–41.
* Gildrie, Richard P. (1990). "Guerrilla Warfare in the Lower Cumberland River Valley, 1862–1865". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 49 (3): 161–176. ISSN 0040-3261.
* Glaze, Robert (2010). "Saint and Sinner: Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Ambiguity of Southern Identity". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 69 (2): 164–185. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42628173.
* Holmes, Jack D. L. (1959). "Forrest's 1864 Raid on Memphis". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 18 (4): 295–321. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42621448.
* Huebner, Timothy S. (March 2023). "Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest". Civil War History. 69 (1): 42–75. doi:10.1353/cwh.2023.0009. ISSN 1533-6271. S2CID 256599213. Project MUSE 879775.
* Luckett, William W. (1956). "Bedford Forrest in the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 15 (2): 99–110. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42621280.
* Tillinghast, Richard (2015). "Nathan Bedford Forrest: Born to Fight". The Sewanee Review. 123 (4): 599–612. ISSN 0037-3052. JSTOR 43663113.
* Turner, Arlin (1955). "George W. Cable's Recollections of General Forrest". The Journal of Southern History. 21 (2): 224–228. doi:10.2307/2955119. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 2955119.
* Wall, Austin (Spring 2018). "Direct from Congo: Nathan Bedford Forrest's Involvement in the Illegal African Slave Trade" (PDF). Rhodes Historical Review. Memphis, Tenn.: Rhodes College.
* Weller, Jac (Winter 1953). "The Logistics of Nathan Bedford Forrest". Military Affairs. 17 (4). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Command and General Staff College: 161–169. doi:10.2307/1982960. JSTOR 1982960.
* Weller, Jac (1959). "Nathan Bedford Forrest: An Analysis of Untutored Military Genius". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 18 (3): 213–251. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42621436.

## Reports and unpublished theses

* Sanders, John R. (1994). The Operational Leadership of Nathan Bedford Forrest (PDF) (Report). dtic.mil.