April 5, 2024
EXTREMELY RARE Nathan Bedford Forrest Civil War Correspondence May 1862 - Copy
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FORREST LETTERThis is a copy (with translation) of what may be the only existing wartime letter written by Nathan Bedford Forrest. It was penned on May 23, 1862 by the then Lieutenant Colonel just forty-five days after his near-fatal wound at Fallen Timbers, following the Battle of Shiloh. It was sent, as a photostat, to my grandfather in March of 1944 by a friend at the Memphis, Tennessee Board of Education.In rendering the copy of the letter that I offer here for purchase, I used a cotton-based paper, to more closely match what might have been available in the 1860's. Once the photostat was digitally transferred to the linen paper, I cut out the letter and "aged" it, front and back. It took me a long time to arrive at a finished result I was completely satisfied with. Once this was accomplished, I had the letter scanned and digitally copied. As a final step, I cut out and "conditioned" a number of display-ready copies. Pictured here is one of the copies that I had professionally framed. This sale is for an UNFRAMED copy of Forrest's letter.Four of my great-great grandfathers served in the Army of the Confederacy. One of them, Lawrence Ewell Talbot, enlisted in 1863 at the age of seventeen, and fought with Company D, Forrest's regiment of Tennessee cavalry, throughout the remainder of the War. I have enclosed a photograph of Talbot
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