Nathan Bedford Forrest

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This file appears in: Fort Heiman
Nathan Bedford Forrest

This period cartes de visite shows Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who occupied Fort Heiman in October 1864 to combat Union supply traffic on the Tennessee River. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Fort Heiman

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #147 in Calloway County commemorates Fort Heiman, a Confederate fort erected in 1861. Fort Heiman is the least well known of three Confederate forts that were built to guard the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Constructed in…