Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (13 July 1821 – 29 October 1877) was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both for his success as a cavalry leader during the war and notorious as a founder of the Ku Klux Klan following the war.
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- Get there the first with the most men.
- Reported by General Basil W. Duke and Richard Taylor
- Often erroneously reported as "Git thar fustest with the most mostest." In The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 272, the phrase he used has also been reported to have been "I always make it a rule to get there first with the most men" and "I just took the short cut and got there first with the most men."
