N. B. Forrest

Character Key: 
Display Name: 
N. B. Forrest
Sort Name: 
Forrest, General Nathan Bedford
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Confederate Army General
Date of Birth: 
Wednesday, July 13, 1831
Origin: 
Tennessee
Cause of Death: 
Disease
Biography: 

Historically, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a slave dealer before the Civil War, one of the Confederacy's most successful cavalry officers during the War, and a founder of the Ku Klux Klan after the war. In this novel, several Faulkner characters serve under Forrest's command.

Ontological Status: 
Historical/Real
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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