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After the war, Forrest became part of an effort to mobilize an organization to protect whites from the vengeance of freed black slaves, Durham said. Many whites were concerned that the newly freed slaves might seek to harm whites.
The Ku Klux Klan was created to defend whites from slaves who might want revenge. It quickly evolved into something much more sinister.
The KKK was founded in Polaski, Tennessee, in 1866 by 6 Confederate officers. One of them, and the first Imperial Wizard of the KKK, was a former Confederate general and Freemason, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Albert Pike held the office of Chief Justice of the KKK while he was simultaneously Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Masonry, in the Southern Jurisdiction.
The KKK was known as the "Invisible Empire of the South"... in 1869 Forrest ordered the Empire to disband because of the extreme violence.
The state of Tennessee supplied 100,000 men to the Southern Army, more than any other state. However, it also supplied 50,000 men to the Union Army, more than nine northern states. In Tennessee, there was much public debate concerning the state's decision to join the Confederacy and both the CSA and the Union armies were actively seeking recruits from that state. Forrest sought to recruit men eager for battle, promising them that they would have "ample opportunity to kill Yankees."
In an 1868 newspaper interview, Forrest boasted that the Klan was a nationwide organization of 550,000 men, and that although he himself was not a member, he was "in sympathy" and would "cooperate" with them, and could himself muster 40,000 Klansmen with only five days' notice. He stated that the Klan did not see blacks as its enemy so much as "carpetbaggers" (northerners who came south after the war ended) and "scalawags" (white Republican southerners). Regardless, N.B. Forrest will always be regarded as a military leader of great native ability, and one who advanced the principles of wartime cavalry deployment and mobile strike capabilty that has remained down to the present philosophy and tactics of modern mobile warfare. In the four years of the war, reputedly a total of 30 horses were shot out from under Forrest and he may have personally killed 31 people. "I was a horse ahead at the end," he said.
Most of this information was referenced. Anyone wanting additional information can do a search, there is plenty of info on NBF.

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