. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . re the the field officers werepresent as well as severalgentlemen of distinction,who were volunteer aidson Forrests staff, amongthe number Colonel Saun-ders, already mentioned,the Hon. Andrew Ewing,a distinguished lawyer from Nashville and F. C. Dunnington, formereditor of the Nashville Union. As the result of the conference, atwhich it was evident Forrest was the master spirit, it was determinedto make a descent on Murfreesboro, and the command was put inmotion late on Saturdav, July 12, 1862, with orders to keep wellclosed up, and
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . re the the field officers werepresent as well as severalgentlemen of distinction,who were volunteer aidson Forrests staff, amongthe number Colonel Saun-ders, already mentioned,the Hon. Andrew Ewing,a distinguished lawyer from Nashville and F. C. Dunnington, formereditor of the Nashville Union. As the result of the conference, atwhich it was evident Forrest was the master spirit, it was determinedto make a descent on Murfreesboro, and the command was put inmotion late on Saturdav, July 12, 1862, with orders to keep wellclosed up, and to make Murfreesboro by daylight next morning, adistance of forty miles. After it had been determined to make adescent on Murfreesboro, Forrest had his brigade drawn up and madea stirring appeal to the officers and men to sustain him in the efforthe was about to make. He told them that the next day (July, 13)would be the anniversary of his birth, and that he would like to cele-brate it at Murfreesboro, near his birthplace, in a becoming manner,. col. baxter smith, 4th tenn. cavalryForrests command. Forrests battle at murfreesboro. 107 All of the command promised that they would contribute what theycould to the felicitation of the occasion. To Captain Edwin Arnold, afterwards sheriff of Rutherford county,Colonel Forrest was indebted for much information connected withthe expedition. The command moved at a rapid rate, reached Woodbury aboutmidnight, where the whole population of the town seemed to be onthe streets. The ladies of the town gathered about Colonel Forrest,and related to him and his command the events of the evening before,when a large detachment of Federal soldiers had swooped down onthe town and had taken and carried away almost every man in town,young and old, and had rushed them off to prison in ladies appealed to Colonel Forrest in the most moving tones torescue their husbands, fathers and brothers, and restore them to theirfamilies. As his ey
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