Doesn't have the best of legacies? That's a shit take. Nathan Bedford Forrest is universally remembered as the finest light cavalry commander of the Civil War. He also formed a guerilla group to fight back against the black occupation of formerly White lands. I can only imagine how newly freed and empowered slaves treated their former masters. The KKK didn't just materialize for no reason at all. The years of reconstruction were probably horrific to live through.