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Union Gen Foster attacked at noon and in the four-hour battle, shelled the town and initiated a flanking movement, compelling the Confederates to withdraw. The first step in moves to force Gen Jones from East Tennessee.

Following the Battle of Stones River, Gen William Rosecrans, commanding the Union Army of the Cumberland, remained in the Murfreesboro, Tennessee, area for over five months

Union Col Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of , when Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a powerful column, approached the town

A reinforced Union infantry brigade, under John Coburn is surrounded and captured. Union influence in middle Tennessee waned.

As Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest's expedition into West Tennessee neared its conclusion, Union Gen Jeremiah Sullivan, with the brigades of Cols Cyrus Dunham and John Fuller, attempted to cut Forrest off from withdrawing across the Tennes...