Thursday, October 2, 2014

October 3, 1864---Forrest afire



OCTOBER 3, 1864:           

In Kentucky and Tennessee and in northern Georgia, General Nathan Bedford Forrest C.S.A. repeatedly cuts the rail line to Atlanta and takes the small towns of Big Shanty and Kennesaw Water Tank. 


General William Tecumseh Sherman U.S.A. is growing tired of Forrest’s constant raids, and sends General George H. Thomas U.S.A. back toward Chattanooga with several tens of thousands of men belonging to the Army of The Cumberland. The large Union force does not scare off The Wizard, but it does suppress for the moment any major action by General John Bell Hood C.S.A.’s still-depleted Army of Tennessee.

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