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| 1. | Edwin, 1806–72, U.S. actor. |
| 2. | John, 1st Baron, 1847–1918, Australian explorer and statesman. |
| 3. | Nathan Bedford, 1821–77, Confederate cavalry general in the U.S. Civil War. |
| For·rest (fôr'ĭst, fŏr'-) American Confederate general who was active at the battles of Shiloh (1862) and Chickamauga (1863). He was a founder and the first leader (1866-1869) of the Ku Klux Klan. |
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