FORREST’S PURSUIT

CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN HERITAGE TRAIL

During the Battle of Chickamauga the present, Forrest also commanded the infantry Forrest's cavalry held thithiss cavalry forces under ththee command of units until General H.T.W. Walker arrived. position during the afternoafternoon,on, General Nathan Bedford Forrest held the being occasionally engaengagedged position on the extreme right of the On the second day of the battle, with the batteries of Dan Confederate Army. On the first day of the Armstrong's Division of Forrest's Cavalry McCook's artillery ooff General Corps operated on the right of Breckinridge's J. D. Morgan's Division that Division. Around 11:00 A.M. they captured General Brannan had left on the Federal hospitals at the Cloud farm. At the high ground to the this time, the Federal reserve corps, under northwest of the McDonald General Gordon Granger, was located to the house to attempt the northeast around McAfee's Church. During protection of the Federal left. the afternoon they were ordered to the Near the end of the battle support of General George Thomas, who was there was some skirmishing being hard pressed at Snodgrass Hill. This with Turchin's Brigade of movement caused the Confederate cavalry to Reynolds Division from the pull back to the east. After the passage of Federal 14th Army Coprs. these troops, however, the Confederates CAVALRY BLACKSMITH AND FORGE IN THE FIELD returned to the LaFayette Road. Immediately after the battle, General Forrest pursued the retreating orders, threatening the Commander of the Federal Army as far as Rossville Gap. There Army of Tennessee with bodily harm. Bragg he climbed a high tree and used a telescope to never reported the incident because he observe the situation at Chattanooga. He realized that Forrest was too important to the reported that the Federals were in somewhat cause to be jailed for insubordination. of a disarray and in full retreat to Chattanooga. He strongly recommended that Forrest immediately wired his superiors in the Army of Tennessee should attack and Richmond informing them he would not complete the destruction of the Federal follow another order issued by Bragg and Army. This was sound advice that was resigned his commission in protest of Bragg's completely ignored by General Braxton actions at Chickamauga. President Jefferson Davis, however, refused to accept Forrest's GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST Bragg. This widened a rift between Forrest and his commander. Bragg, who was having resignation and, instead, promoted him to battle, using his men as dismounted cavalry, problems with most of his subordinates after general and handed him command of Forrest helped push the Federals back from Chickamauga ordered Forrest to "turn his all cavalry in west Tennessee and north the Reed's Bridge Road and Jay's Mill. His troops over" and report to Gen. Joseph Mississippi. men pressured the Federals to retreat from Wheeler. This was in spite of the fact that their position near West Chickamauga Creek Bragg was fully aware that Forrest had to one more in line with other Union troops at vowed never to fight with Wheeler again. An Please visit our website at: the LaFayette Road. As the senior general angry Forrest confronted Bragg over the http://www.ChickamaugaCampaign.org