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By Tom Gillard, December 27, 2009
Forrest's Murfreesboro Raid Marker
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| On Tennessee Route 56, on the right. |
| | Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's brigade passed here enroute to its junction with additional units, to be followed by a further advance on the Federal garrison and stores at Murfreesboro. Leaving Chattanooga on July 9, the brigade here consisted of the . . . — — Map (db m25918) HM |
| On Main Street (Tennessee Route 56) at Tennessee Route 108, on the left when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's brigade, having left Chattanooga July 9, bivouacked here enroute to his capture of Murfreesboro. The Brigade then consisted of the 8th Texas Cavalry (Wharton), 2nd Georgis Cavalry (Lawton), and Woodard's Kentucky . . . — — Map (db m25919) HM |
| On Old Rock Island Road (State Highway 288) at Mud Creek Road, on the right when traveling west on Old Rock Island Road. |
| | Crossing Tennessee River on July 9, Forrest's brigade marched here in two columns, where he received reinforcements of four companies. His force bivouacked in this vicinity; the following morning it marched toward Murfreesboro, where the Federal . . . — — Map (db m76030) HM |
| On South Public Square at South Church Street, on the left when traveling east on South Public Square. |
| | A task force of Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Brigade, consisting of the 1st Georgia Battalion (Morrison) and led by Forrest in person, charged rapidly to this area, at daybreak where they overcame one company of the 9th Michigan Infantry and two . . . — — Map (db m82457) HM |
| On Roberts Street at Maney Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Roberts Street. |
| | Surrender of the Union garrison took place about 4:00 P.M. Units surrendering were Gen. T. T. Crittenden and staff, detachment of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, detachment of the 8th Kentucky Cavalry, “B” Battery, Kentucky Light . . . — — Map (db m19367) HM |
| On North Manney Avenue, 0.1 miles north of Roberts Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | “For historic drama, few events in the American Civil War can equal Nathan Bedford Forrest’s raid of July 13, 1862, on Murfreesboro, Tennessee.” –Kenneth Halfendorfer, Historian
A Critical Location
Throughout the Civil . . . — — Map (db m82516) HM |
May. 5, 2024
