Nathan Bedford Forrest III

Nathan Bedford Forrest III was a C.S. Army officer during the Second Great War. He was on of the best generals on the C.S. General Staff and he earned the position of chief of the General Staff without his famous namesake coming into account. He was valued by C.S. president Jake Featherston for not being scared to speak his mind to the president. Before the war he helped plan Operation Blackbeard and made sure it was carried out correctly. The operation was a huge success, with no small credit to the man who devised it. Forrest then began to think of the plan to defend northern Virginia against the coming attack. Also Forrest helped Confederate spymaster, Brigadier General Clarence Potter, to help root out U.S. spies in the General Staff. Both of these assignments were successful as Forrest was able to hold the United States attack back and several spies were caught by the idea that Potter had. Forrest was still hard at work as he began to work on Operation Coalscuttle. He helped make the plan as successful as it originally was. However the plan began to unravel when C.S. troops began to bog down during the Battle of Pittsburgh. Forrest protested to Featherston, saying that the troops should try to get out because of the heavy casualties the men were taking, and that the city was already wrecked. However Featherston vehemently opposed the decision and Forrest began to doubt Featherston's sanity after this encounter. Forrest brought the issue up with Potter and proposed possibly killing Featherston, but Potter turned it down. However after Operation Rosebud and it became apparent that the men in Pittsburgh would be forced to surrender, Potter accepted the offer and the two began to plot against Featherston.