Oaklands Mansion

Oaklands Mansion (HM1B6A)

Location: Murfreesboro, TN 37130 Rutherford County
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N 35° 51.308', W 86° 23.075'

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Watching from the Windows

— Forrest's First Raid —

(preface)
For two weeks in July 1862, Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest led 1,400 cavalrymen through Middle Tennessee to raid, scout, and disrupt the Union Army of The Cumberland's operation there. Leaving McMinnville on July 13, Forrest fought actions at Murfreesboro, on the outskirts of Nashville, at Manchester, and elsewhere. He also destroyed railroad tracks and cut telegraph lines. Forrest's raid, his first independent command, was also the first large-scale raid within the Federal lines in the western theater. It earned him a promotion to brigadier general.

(main text)
On the morning of July 13, 1862, Union Gen. Thomas T. Crittenden's force at Murfreesboro was separated into three detachments. Col. William Duffield and the 9th Michigan Infantry were camped here at Oaklands, Lewis and Rachel Adeline Maney' house, around Maney's Spring. An infantry company guarded the courthouse in town, while an infantry regiment, a cavalry unit, and an artillery battery were camped on Stones River more than a mile northwest of the town.

Suddenly, Confederate Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest charged into Murfreesboro having divided his command to attack all three Federal detachments simultaneously. Part of the Battle of Murfreesboro took place on the front lawn here while Maney children watched from an upstairs window. When the Confederates attacked, a resident wrote, "The whole population were aroused from their slumbers, and rushed to their windows, balconies, and verandas, with every demonstration of delight." Forrest's troops soon overpowered the Federals here. Duffield, wounded during the fighting, remained at Oaklands, where Maney family and their slaves cared for him until he had recuperated enough to travel.

In mid-December 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his aide Stephen D. Lee stayed here. Davis reviewed Confederate troops nearby and wrote, "The troops in Murfreesboro were in fine spirits and well supplied."

In 1872, Lewis Maney filed a war damage claim for $27,000 for the plantation's losses during the war, but federal authorities rejected it.

Evergreen Cemetery, which was part of the Maney plantation, is located east of here. Maney family members are buried there, as well as the Confederate dead.

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Gen. Thomas T. Crittenden Courtesy Library of Congress
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest Courtesy Library of Congress
Murfreesboro, Harper's Weekly, Jan. 31, 1863
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HM NumberHM1B6A
Series This marker is part of the Tennessee: Tennessee Civil War Trails series
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Placed ByTennessee Civil War Trails
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Date Added Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 at 8:54am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 555567 N 3968055
Decimal Degrees35.85513333, -86.38458333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 35° 51.308', W 86° 23.075'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds35° 51' 18.48" N, 86° 23' 4.50" W
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Area Code(s)615
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 900 N Maney Ave, Murfreesboro TN 37130, US
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