Nathan Bedford Forrest in Hopkinsville, Kentucky

[coyote101]

This marker is located at the entrance to the Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky:


The back side of the same marker:


Disease and pestilence claimed more soldiers than bullets and cannonballs:


Most of the dead are buried in this cemetery located in the Riverside cemetery:




The monument to the unknown Confederate dead located near the Camp Alcorn cementery:





         Beneath this sod
              is mingled
       the sacred dust of
    one hundred and one
      unknown soldiers,
     who were attached
to the following commands:
   First Mississippi Regiment
  Third Mississippi Regiment
   Seventh Texas Regiment
   Eigth Kentucky Regiment
         Forest's Cavalry
Woodward's Kentucky Cavalry
    Green's Kentucky Artillery
        ____________
   War Between the States
          1861 - 1865

This is the marker located at the site of the winter encampment:


Nathan Bedford Forrest was quite a colorful character. A millionare before the war, he enlisted as a private and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General by the end of the war. He was one of the most succesful cavalry commanders of the war and is said to have had thirty horses shot out from under him.

Pat

[HaMeR]

Cool stuff Pat!! I enjoy history. Thanks for sharing!! 

[Bopeye]

Thank you again!!! It's about time I posted some of my stuff. Will try to do so tonight, but ya never know.

Gen. Sherman said that Nathan Bedford Forrest was the best leader our Civil War ever produced. That says a lot about Forrest when coming from someone like Sherman. 

[Bopeye]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was quite a colorful character. A millionare before the war, he enlisted as a private and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General by the end of the war. He was one of the most succesful cavalry commanders of the war and is said to have had thirty horses shot out from under him.

Pat

Thirty horses it was and he personally claimed to have killed 31 men, so he said he was one up on the yanks. They killed 30 horses, he killed 31 men. 

[FinsnFur]

Very interesting Pat.
Thanks for sharing it definitely