Russell Dobson

Residents of Atlanta in 1864 watch society collapse in the Civil War as a Confederate General burns down military supplies and incinerates the city.

When the South can no longer fund massive armies, one man uses his own money to build his own infantry, cavalry, and artillery to fight the Civil War.

A Rebel Born follows the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a brilliant Confederate general and one of the most controversial figures in the American Civil War. Responsible for the massacre at the Battle of Fort Pillow, he was an expert cavalry leader, and one of the few soldiers to be promoted to general with no military training. Even now, more than 150 years after the end of the war, Forrest remains shrouded in controversy.