Nathan Bedford Forrest Events

1862 Jun Confederate Virginia Bethel Moon Escapes Imprisonment
Virginia "Ginnie" Bethel Moon (1844-1925) was born in Ohio in 1844. She moved to Memphis, Tennessee with her mother in 1862 where she began a short but notable career as an espionage agen...
1862 Jul 13 First Battle of Murfreesboro
The First Battle of Murfreesboro was fought on July 13, 1862, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, as part of the American Civil War. On June 10, 1862, Union Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, co...
1862 Dec 19 Battle of Jackson, TN
Description: The engagement at Jackson occurred during Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Expedition into West Tennessee, between December 11, 1862, and January 1, 1863. Forrest wished t...
1862 Dec 31 Battle of Parker's Cross Roads
Description: As Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s expedition into West Tennessee neared its conclusion, Union Brig. Gen. Jeremiah C. Sullivan, with the brigades of Col. Cyrus L. Dunham ...
1863 Feb 3 Battle of Dover
Description: Under orders, in late January 1863, Confederate Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, commanding two brigades of cavalry, had taken position on the Cumberland River at Palmyra to disrupt...
1863 Mar 25 Battle of Brentwood
Description: Union Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of March 25, 1863, when Confederate Brig. Gen. Nath...
1863 Apr 30 Battle of Day's Gap
Description: Union Col. Abel D. Streight led a provisional brigade on a raid to cut the Western & Atlantic Railroad that supplied Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Confederate army in Middle Tennessee...
1864 Feb 22 Battle of Okolona
Description: From Vicksburg, Mississippi, Sherman launched a campaign to take the important railroad center at Meridian, Mississippi, and if the situation were favorable, to push on to Se...
1864 Feb 22 Battle of West Point, Mississippi
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest routs a Union force three times the size of his army in a battle that helped end Union General William T. Sherman's expedition into Alabama. ...
1864 Mar 25 Battle of Paducah
Description: In March 1864, Forrest set out from Columbus, Mississippi, with a force of less than 3,000 men on a multipurpose expedition (recruit, reoutfit, disperse Yankees, etc.) into W...
1864 Apr 12 Battle of Fort Pillow - Controversy Surrounds Massacre
"Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history." —Military historian David J. Eicher
1864 Jun 10 Battle of Brice's Crossroads
Description: At the beginning of June 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest set out with his cavalry corps of about 2,000 men to enter Middle Tennessee and destroy the Nashville & Chatta...
1864 Jul 14
to 1864 Jul 15
 Battle of Tupelo
Description: Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith, commanding a combined force of more than 14,000 men, left LaGrange, Tennessee, on July 5, 1864, and advanced south. Smith’s mission was to insure that M...
1864 Aug 21
4:00AM
 Second Battle of Memphis
The Second Battle of Memphis was a battle of the American Civil War occurring on August 21, 1864, in Shelby County, Tennessee. At 4:00 a.m. on August 21, 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Fo...
1864 Nov 4
to 1864 Nov 5
 Battle of Johnsonville
Description: In an effort to check the Union army’s advance through Georgia, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led a 23-day raid culminating in an attack on the Yankee supply base at Johns...
1864 Dec 5
to 1864 Dec 7
 Third Battle of Murfreesboro
Description: In a last, desperate attempt to force Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s army out of Georgia, Gen. John Bell Hood led the Army of Tennessee north toward Nashville in November 186...
1864 Dec 25 Battle of Anthony's Hill
The Battle of Anthony’s Hill (also known as the Battle of King's Hill or the Battle of Devil's Gap) was an engagement that occurred December 25, 1864, in Tennessee during the American Civ...
1865 Apr 2 Battle of Selma
Other Names: None Location: Dallas County Campaign: Wilson’s Raid in Alabama and Georgia (1865) Date(s): April 2, 1865 Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson [US]; Lt...