Expedition after Forrest

Expedition after Forrest
Part of the American Civil War
Date December 24, 1863 – December 31, 1863 Location Tennessee Result Forrest escapes
Belligerents
United States (Union)	Confederate States (Confederacy)

Expedition after Forrest was a military movement of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Expedition

Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Confederate States Army was making raids in west Tennessee, his force giving Union commanders headaches on their supply lines Major General William T. Sherman order his Memphis commanders to catch him on December 24 an expedition began to cut off Forrest's retreat to Mississippi. The Union force set out marching an average of twenty miles a day with many skirmishes with Forrest. Nonetheless, General Forrest still managed to escape across the Tennessee River to end the expedition On December 31, 1863.^[1][2]

Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest

Result

Major General Forrest escaped capture from the Union force's carried off one hundred wagons, two hundred beef cattle, three thousand conscripts and innumerable stores, torn up railroad track, cut telegraph wire, burned and sacked towns.^[1]

References

1. "Nathan Beford Forrest And His Campaigns". Civilwarhome.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
2. "Nathan Beford Forrest Biography". Civilwarhome.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.