article_snippet: own slave-trading business (advert pictured, right), and killed hundreds of blacks during the Civil War while letting whites surrender and survive .
article_snippet: According to Andrew Ward, author of the Civil War account River Run Red,
article_snippet: During America's Civil War
article_snippet: a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest was hailed as a 'brilliant strategist' for leading 1,600 Confederate soldiers to attack Fort Pillow in Tennessee.
article_snippet: After winning the battle, a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest selected 200 black soldiers to be slaughtered.
article_snippet: 200 black soldiers were allowed to surrender and survive.