In 1871, the U.S. Congressional Committee Report stated that "The natural tendency of all such organizations is to violence and crime, hence it was that Gen. Forrest and other men of influence by the exercise of their moral power, induced them to disband".
In 1871 the US Congressional Committee Report stated that "The natural tendency of all such organizations is to violence and crime hence it was that Gen Forrest and other men of influence by the exercise of their moral power induced them to disband"