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Thanks a lot! I know a large portion of his property was confiscated, including the pieces he put in his mother's name, but I'd thought he retained the Adams street property. I think he did manage to keep the undeveloped property in Arkansas.
His mother's plantation was confiscated but she recovered it before she died. This was located on the old Memphis & Ohio RR and is now part of a neighborhood called Nutbush. It reverted to NBF on her death and he sold it to Jesse who sold it to a guy named Trezevant who was collecting property for the US gov't for one of the national cemeteries. Forrest retained his Mississippi plantations (Green Grove and Roderick) as well as extensive but undeveloped holding in MS, TN and AK.
He continued to pay taxes on the Adams property but the US gov't rented it out. It came back to the family after NBF's death.
Mary Ann was pretty much homeless during most of the war but the upside was it kept her near her husband and son. She got as close to them as he would let her. Sure can't say Forrest didn't put his blood and treasure into the fight!
Yes. Mary Ann traveled with NBF throughout the war. She was sometimes a guest in various homes but she shared a tent during the winter of 1862 with NBF and Willie in Sacramento, KY.
Was the first fire the same place, President's Island? When he was a kid there was also a fire in the family home - can't recall this moment but think it was the home in Selmer.
Both fires that I referred to were on President's Island. I am not familiar with the fire from his youth...but don't you mean Salem, MS? Selmer is near the Hurst Nation in McNairy County, TN.
His mother's plantation was confiscated but she recovered it before she died. This was located on the old Memphis & Ohio RR and is now part of a neighborhood called Nutbush. It reverted to NBF on her death and he sold it to Jesse who sold it to a guy named Trezevant who was collecting property for the US gov't for one of the national cemeteries. Forrest retained his Mississippi plantations (Green Grove and Roderick) as well as extensive but undeveloped holding in MS, TN and AK.
He continued to pay taxes on the Adams property but the US gov't rented it out. It came back to the family after NBF's death.
Mary Ann was pretty much homeless during most of the war but the upside was it kept her near her husband and son. She got as close to them as he would let her. Sure can't say Forrest didn't put his blood and treasure into the fight!
Yes. Mary Ann traveled with NBF throughout the war. She was sometimes a guest in various homes but she shared a tent during the winter of 1862 with NBF and Willie in Sacramento, KY.
Was the first fire the same place, President's Island? When he was a kid there was also a fire in the family home - can't recall this moment but think it was the home in Selmer.
Both fires that I referred to were on President's Island. I am not familiar with the fire from his youth...but don't you mean Salem, MS? Selmer is near the Hurst Nation in McNairy County, TN.