Justiceseeker, you know that I admire you all to pieces, but your assertion about Forrest is just nonsense. Nathan Bedford Forrest did not "found the Ku-Klux Klan." The Ku-Klux Klan was founded as a lark by a few Confederate veterans of Scottish ancestry in Pulaski, TN in 1866. Its original purpose wasn't even as a terrorist organization. But disguised as ghosts they noticed they frightened the Blacks (this was before they were left wing intellectuals) and that's where the trouble started.
Forrest was the Grand Wizard of the Klan after it became "The Invisible Empire of the South," but he did not found it. Neither was the original Klan anti-Jewish (it even had Jewish members, like Dr. Simon Baruch). It did not burn crosses. The original Reconstruction Klan was very, very different from the various reincarnations of the twentieth century.
Forrest is not a personal hero to me (what with my ancestors being "scalawags" and all), but he did not found the Klan. He wasn't a nice person, though. He was a slave-trader before the war and his soldiers intentionally massacred Black Union soldiers at Ft. Pillow to specifically "prove" that Black soldiers couldn't fight. But if NBF was anti-Jewish, you'll have to prove it.
Myth. Forrest's cavalry had black troopers, most of whom were his possession prior to the war.