Nathan Bedford Forrest III (April 7, 1905 – June 13, 1943) was a brigadier general of the United States Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Nathan Bedford Forrest II and Mattie Patterson (Patton). On November 22, 1930, he married Frances Brassler and, according to the Arlington National Cemetery website, he had no children, making him the final male Forrest in his great-grandfather's direct line.