The Battle of Sacramento was an engagement of the American Civil War that took place in Sacramento, Kentucky on December 28, 1861. Confederate cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest,
Overview of the site of the Battle of Sacramento, located off the western side of Kentucky Routes 81/85 just south of the city of Sacramento, Kentucky
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Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general, noted for his aggressive cavalry tactics and rapid rise from private to general during the American Civil War. After the war, Forrest was inaugurated
Battle of Sacramento (Kentucky)
…was an engagement of the American Civil War that took place in Sacramento, Kentucky on December 28, 1861. Confederate cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest, numbering between 200 and 300, attacked, encircled and defeated a Union force of 500 under Major Eli H. Murray which had been watering south of the…
Forrest in uniform, c. 1862
The brothers Forrest, left to right: N. B. Forrest, William H. Forrest, Jesse A. Forrest (photographed after the civil war), and Jeffrey E. Forrest; there may be no surviving photographs of Aaron H. Forrest and John N. Forrest
N. B. Forrest, his 15-year-old son W. M. Forrest, and his 25-year-old brother J. E. Forrest all enlisted in the Confederate States Army on the same day; Jeffrey Forrest was killed in action at the Battle of Okolona in 1864 ("Capt. William M. Forrest With a Group of the Members of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Staff" Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 9, 1908)
Col. Bedford Forrest carte de visite by Bingham & Brothers Gallery of Memphis (Steve and Mike Romano Collection, Military Images)