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(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 a…
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"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 LocationThroughout the Civil War, Murfreesboro was of s…
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(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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B5X_architecture-on-the-square_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Almost all of the buildings that surround the courthouse now date from after the Civil War. Constructed in a restrained frugality more than stylistic choice, these structures replaced the earlier stores and warehouses that composed the antebell…
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For whom this county was named in 1803. In the early years of the Revolutionary War he commanded all Military Forces west of the Alleghenies
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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 …
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Erected to the memoryofGen. Nathan Bedford Forrestbythe Daughters of the Confederacyfor heroic servicesrendered the citizensof Murfreesboro on July 13, 1862
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Rutherford County was created in 1803 from parts of Davidson and Williamson counties. The county was named in honor of Griffith Rutherford, an Irish immigrant who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental army during the Revolutiona…
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The Rutherford County Courthouse is one of only six remaining antebellum courthouses in the state of Tennessee. Erected between 1859 and 1861 at a cost of $50,000, the Greek Revival-style brick structure features classical columns on the east a…
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(east face)In commemoration of the valor ofConfederate Soldiers,who fell in the great Battle of Murfreesboro,Dec. 31, 1862, and January 2, 1863,and in minor engagements in this vicinity,this monument is erected.(north face)Lest we forget1861-1865(…
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