Wikipedia is not always 100% accurate. N B Forest was indeed "NOT" the founder of the KKK. He was in fact the first "Grand Marshall" of it. The reasons stated for its original organization are as stated here. It is definitely known there were in fact some "Black" members of the original orginazation. The one thing Forest did do was when he felt it had served its purpose & he saw trends which he didn't approve of "HE OFFICIALLY DISBANDED IT". I have studied some of this history & don't have the exact dates at hand right now, but it did indeed cease to exist for several years & then resufaced under new leadership & with New Intents. The attrocities of the KKK which most relate to it were not of N B Forest's doing or by his approval.
There were of course two major armies of the confederacy, The Army of Virginnia & the Army of Tennessee. Lee was over the Army of Virginnia, Forrest was in the Army of Tennessee, so he was not directly in Lee's Army.
It has often been said, "The Winner gets to Write the History", nowhere is this brought out more clearly than this war, which incidently "WAS NOT" a Civil War, there has never been a cicil war fought in the United States.
Another thing you can chew on, Forest freed his personal slaves prior to being forced to. The only slaves Lincoln ever freed were those in Confederate controlled areas, in fact those over which he had no actual authority, his great "Emancipation Proclamation" did not free a single slave which he had the athority to free.
Make no bones about it Lincoln was as big a "Racist" as Forest wver was, they just had some different outlooks. What Lincoln really wanted was all the blacks "OUT" of the US. He didn't believe in the "Ownership" of another human, but felt them so inferior he really had no use for them at all.
