Bruce Guthrie Photos: TN -- Memphis -- Forrest Park

TN -- Memphis -- Forrest Park -- Notes:

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Signage: You'll see a lot of signs in this group. Eventually, I'll type the text of the signs into the subject description and get rid of the signs themselves. This is pretty slow and tedious work though.
Various Signs: The marker where Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) and his wife Mary (1826-1893) lay is marked:
Those hoofbeats die not upon fame's crimsoned sod
But will ring through her song and her story:
He fought like a titan and struck like a god.
And his dust is our ashes of glory.
-- Virginia Frazer Boyle
1904:
Erected by his countrymen in honor
of the military genius of
Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest,
Confederate States Army
1861-1865.

N.B. Forrest Camp 215: Sons of Confederate Veterans:
On June 20, 1900, a group of over 100 sons and grandsons of Confederate veterans met in Memphis to organize a local chapter, or "camp," of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, later known as the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Following active debate, the camp was named for Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77), a Memphian. On March 27, 1901, a charter was issued, thus making N.B. Forrest Camp 215 the first SCV camp in Memphis. It had 337 members by the time of the national reunion in Memphis later that year of 15,000 Confederate Veterans, welcomed by camp command Episcopal Bishop Thomas F. Gailor. As part of those festivities, 12,000 people attended the Confederate Ball hosted by the Forrest Camp in a wooden structure erected for that purpose on a site including present-day Confederate Park. The camp also organized the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) national reunions in Memphis in 1909 and 1924, and hosted SCV national conventions, or "reunions," here in 1959, 1976, and 2002.
Over the years, many prominent area civic and religious leaders have been members of the camp. SCV national headquarters was located in Memphis from 1910 through 1913, and during this time camp membership rose to 700, making it the largest SCV camp in the United States. Beginning in 1901, Camp 215 helped raise funs for the Forrest Equestrian Monument dedicated in this park in 1905, and in 2002 it funded replacement of the weathered gravestones of F ...More...
Wikipedia Description: Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Nathaniel Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate army general and an instrumental figure in the founding and growth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Forrest was perhaps the American Civil War's most highly regarded cavalry and partisan ranger (guerrilla leader). Forrest is regarded by many military historians as the war's most innovative and successful general. His tactics of mobile warfare are still studied by modern soldiers.

Early life:
Nathan Bedford Forrest was born to a poor Scots-Irish family in the Marshall County town of Chapel Hill, Tennessee. He was the first of blacksmith William Forrest's twelve children. After his father's death, Forrest became the head of the family at the age of 17, and through hard work and determination, was able to pull himself and his family up from poverty. In 1841 (age 20), he went with his uncle to Hernando, Mississippi. His uncle was killed during a raid by outlaws, but Forrest killed two of them with his gun and wounded two others with his knife. One of the wounded men survived and served under Forrest during the Civil War. He was to become a businessman, an owner of several plantations and a slave trader based on Adams Street in Memphis. In 1858, he was elected a Memphis city alderman. Forrest provided financially for his mother, put his younger brothers through college, and, by the time the Civil War broke out in 1861, he had become a millionaire and one of the richest men in the American South. Forrest was a registered Democrat.

Military career:
Given that Forrest had earned much of his fortune engaging in the slave trade (as much as $50,000 per year), he favored the continuation of states' rights to preserve slavery, and therefore supported the Confederate side in the war. After war broke out, Forrest returned to Tennessee and enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army. On July 14, 1861, he joined Captain J.S. White's ...More...
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FORRES_130228_16.JPG: "Those hoof beats die not upon fame's crimson sod, But will ring through her song and her story; He fought like a Titan and struck like a god, And his dust is our ashes of glory." -- Virginia Frazer Boyle
2. FORRES_130228_19.JPG: 1904 Erected By His Countrymen In Honor Of The Military Genius Of Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Confederate States Army 1861 - 1865
3. FORRES_130228_21.JPG: N. B. Forrest Camp 215 Sons of Confederate Veterans On June 28, 1900, a group of over 100 sons and grandsons of Confederate veterans met in Memphis to organize a local chapter, or "camp" of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, later known as the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Following active debate, the camp was named for Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77), a Memphian. On March 27, 1901, a charter was issued, thus making N.B. Forrest Camp 215 the first SCV camp in Memphis. It had 537 members by the time of the national reunion in Memphis later that year of 15,000 Confederate Veterans, welcomed the camp commander Episcopal Bishop Thomas F. Gailor. As part of the festivities, 12,000 people attended the Confederate Ball hosted by the Forrest Camp in a wooden structure erected for that purpose on a site including present day Confederate Park. The camp also organized the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) national reunions in Memphis in 1909 and 1924, and hosted SCV national conventions, or "reunions," here in 1959, 1976 and 2002.
4. FORRES_130228_23.JPG: Over the years, many prominent area civic and religious leaders have been members of the camp. SCV national headquarters was located in Memphis from 1910 through 1913, and during this time camp membership rose to 700, making it the largest SCV camp in the United States. Beginning in 1901, Camp 215 helped raise funds for the Forrest Equestrian Monument dedicated in this park in 1905, and in 2002 it funded replacement of the weathered gravestones of Forrest and his wife in the Monument. In the latter part of the 20th century, the Camp was active in the preservation of Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park, the upkeep of over 1000 soldiers' graves at Confederate Rest in Elmwood Cemetery, the restoration of General Forrest's boyhood home near Chapel Hill, TN, and the promotion of history programs in local schools. The Forrest Camp fulfilling a tradition of over 100 years, continues to lead and provide assistance in projects involving preservation of Confederate history and Southern heritage.
5. FORRES_130228_26.JPG: Nathan Bedford Forrest III, Airman Brigadier General N.B. Forrest, III, U.S. Army Air Force, was born in Memphis on April 7, 1905 and was the was the first American General Officer killed in combat against the nazis during World War II. He died while participating in a B-17 bomber raid on Kiel, Germany, June 13, 1943.
6. FORRES_130228_32.JPG: Nathan Bedford Forrest III, Airman A 1928 graduate of West Point, he served as Second Air Force Chief of Staff prior to transfer to the U.S. Eighth Air Force in England. He was the son of Memphians Nathan Bedford Forrest, II and Mattie Patton Forrest, and great-grandson of Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In 1949 his body was returned from Germany and reburied in Arlington National Cemetery. [Note the guy pushing his car in the background.]
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