Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general, 1862-1867.Artist: J Rogers

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general, 1862-1867. A successful cavalry commander during the Civil War noted for his tactics of mobile warfare, Forrest (1821-1877) is possibly better known for his role in the establishment of the original Ku Klux Klan after the defeat of the South. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)