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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,
Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, commanding the
Army of the Ohio, started a leisurely advance toward
Chattanooga, which
Union Brig. Gen. James S. Negley and his force threatened on
June 7 and
June 8. In response to the threat, the
Confederate government sent Brig. Gen.
Nathan Bedford Forrest to Chattanooga to organize a cavalry brigade. By July, Confederate cavalry under the command of Forrest and
Col. John Hunt Morgan were raiding into Middle Tennessee and Kentucky. Perhaps the most dramatic of these cavalry raids was Forrest's capture of the Union
Murfreesboro garrison on
July 13,
1862.
Forrest left Chattanooga on
July 9 with two cavalry regiments and joined other units on the way, bringing the total force to about 1,400 men. The major objective was to strike Murfreesboro, an important Union supply center on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, at dawn on
July 13. The Murfreesboro garrison was camped in three locations around town and included detachments from four units comprising infantry, cavalry, and artillery, under the command of Brig. Gen.
Thomas Turpin Crittenden, who had just arrived on
July 12. Between 4:15 and 4:30 a.m. on the morning of
July 13, Forrest's cavalry surprised the Union pickets on the Woodbury Pike, east of Murfreesboro, and quickly overran a Federal hospital and the camp of the
9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment detachment. Additional Rebel troops attacked the camps of the other Union commands and the jail and courthouse. By late afternoon all of the Union units had surrendered to Forrest's force. The Confederates destroyed much of the Union supplies and tore up railroad track in the area, but the main result of the raid was the diversion of Union forces from a drive on Chattanooga. This raid, along with Morgan's raid into Kentucky, made possible Bragg's concentration of forces at Chattanooga and his early September invasion of Kentucky.
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