I think you have been greatly mislead about Forrest’s involvement with the KKK. First, he wasn’t a founder. Second, he ordered it disbanded when the former Confederates were allowed to vote again and it resorted to violence. The KKK as we know it didn’t resurface until after his death in 1876. That’s the problem, people like to repeat false history and don’t take the time to see the facts.
That’s sort of what I thought I’d heard.
That the KKK was NOT the “burning and lynching” society it became later.
But I really don’t know much about it.
Anyway, Forrest himself has never sounded like a terrible guy.