Authors

Contributor

Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This black and white illustration is of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a prominent Confederate Army general during the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869. Forrest is depicted as wearing a double-breasted uniform with an ornate collar. The background is lightly shaded and the illustration is within a thin lined frame. "General N. B. Forrest" is captioned beneath the illustration. This illustration is in volume six of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

1890

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

Forrest , Nathan Bedford, 1821 – 1877

Object Type

image

Format (original)

illustration

Format (digital)

JPG

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V6_General-N-B-Forrest_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 6

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

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