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.