Jesse Anderson Forrest (April 9, 1834 – December 15, 1889) was an American slave trader, Confederate cavalry colonel, livery stable owner, and cotton plantation owner of Tennessee and Arkansas, United States.
Before the war, the Forrest brothers were engaged in the slave trade at Memphis and up and down the Mississippi River.
[6] He was listed as colonel commanding the 21st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment when he was injured in a fight near Decatur in 1864.
[7] After the war he worked as an "extensive levee and railroad contractor, farmer, and dealer in livestock.
"[5] A father of six, in later life he owned three large plantations at Walnut Bend, Arkansas.