Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nathan Bedford Forrest entered the world on the 13th of July 1821 inside a one-room log cabin near Chapel Hill Tennessee. His family lived in poverty with no windows and only a single fireplace to warm their home.
Forrest enlisted in the Confederate States Army on the 14th of June 1861 and rose to become a brigadier general by the 21st of July 1862. He established new doctrines for mobile forces earning him the nickname The Wizard of the Saddle while using cavalry troops as mounted infantry.
By 1851 Nathan Bedford Forrest had become a notable slave trader in the United States who is believed to have sold thousands of slaves during his career. He earned profits of hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1850s currency from these transactions.
Nathan Bedford Forrest became involved with the Ku Klux Klan in late 1866 when the organization formed by six veterans expanded throughout Tennessee and beyond. He was elected grand wizard of the Invisible Empire after being nominated by a voice calling out The Wizard of the Saddle General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Forrest died from acute complications of diabetes at his brother Jesse's Memphis home on the 29th of October 1877. His funeral procession stretched over two miles long with an estimated crowd of 20,000 mourners including many black citizens among them.