Forrest's Murfreesboro Raid - July 13, 1862 3A84
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 companies of the 8th Kentucky Cavalry, released a number of Confederate civilian prisoners, and captured the area commander, Brig. Gen. T.T. Crittenden, and his staff, while other units of the brigade busied themselves elsewhere.

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Forrest's Murfreesboro Raid - July 13, 1862 3A85
A task force of Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Brigade, consisting of the 1st Georgia, Woodward's Kentucky Cavalry Battalion, and the two independent cavalry companies of Taylor and Waltham, moved rapidly west through the town at daybreak and immobilized and subdued the 3rd Minnesota Infantry (Lester) and Battery "B," Kentucky Light Artillery, while other units of the Brigade overcame the Federal garrison to the east and the center of the town.

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Nathan Bedford Forrest 4E41
In a house here, home of Col. Jesse Forrest, his brother, the man who had risen from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army died Oct. 27, 1877. Because of his achievements as a cavalry commander, he was termed by a foreign military authority the greatest commander of light cavalry among English-speaking peoples.

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