Who is in the painting that he is standing in front of?
I’m guessing Nathan Bedford Forrest?
Nathan Bedford Forrest, I believe.
re: “Who is in the painting that he is standing in front of?”
Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest. A brilliant self-taught tactician during the war, but unfortunately also the founder of the original KKK after the war - although he left it when it became even too violent and reactionary for him.
Prior to the Civil War he was a slave trader. As a military leader he was second to none.