Was he the Confederate general that was a driving force in the founding of the Ku Klux Klan?
He was instrumental in the founding of the Klan but it is not the Klan of today. When the Klan changed direction, he disassociated himself from it. Nathan Bedford Forrest is a Confederate hero.
Apparently according to some here he was the driving force behind the Klan, but it was a “kinder, gentler” Klu Klux Klan that only planted roadside flowers, picked up trash, and read newspapers to the residents at the old folks home...;-)