The War Between the States Centennial at THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH:
The
University Mace, known on the Domain and across region as "the
Louise Claiborne-Armstrong gift to THE UNIVERSITY
OF THE SOUTH," memorializes
Tennessee's General
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1) and depicts the
Great Seal of the Confederacy, as found in the narthex stained glass
windows of All Saints' Chapel in Sewanee.
Sewanee Military Academy alumnus Andrew
Nelson Lytle's (1) (2)
BEDFORD FORREST AND HIS CRITTER COMPANY, 1932,
Southern Classics Series,1984, University Supply Store, Easter Semester
2005.
University Supply Store, Sewanee, Tenn.
Seal of The Sewanee Military Academy, 1868, successor of the Grammar School
of
T HE U NIVERSITY OF THE S OUTH,
Narthex windows, All Saints' Chapel.
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Alumnus James Morton Armstrong, brother
of Louise Claiborne-Armstrong:
From the SEWANEE CENTENNIAL ALUMNI DIRECTORY,
1857-1957, edited by Helen Petry and Elizabeth Chitty-
Grammar School, entered Lent Term 1886, #963- ARMSTRONG
James Morton (Louisville Ky); C 1208; sec American-Gracey Co Louisville
KY 1906; Darien Ga
The College, entered Trinity Term 1890, #1208- ARMSTRONG
James Morton, etc.
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The
official
University Mace inscribed:
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TO
THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST |
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"In Confederate General Nathan
Bedford Forrest, the Southern man of war, Andrew Lytle finds the
quintessential Christian warrior, 'fighting for the traditional
element in our society.' " -Editor, BEDFORD FORREST AND
HIS CRITTER COMPANY, Andrew Nelson Lytle, 1931,1984
"[Forrest
(2) was] the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on
either side." -General William
Tecumseh Sherman, APRIL 1865, Jeff Winik, 2001
"...a tactical genius, inflammatory,
headstrong, imperious, he
(3) was the South's most innovative and ruthless fighter."
-Jeff Winik, APRIL 1865, 2001
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Mace--a staff or baton usually embellished with metal
used as an insignia of office; the Mace precedes the Vice-Chancellor in
academic processions; the Mace is traditionally carried by the President
of the Order of Gownsmen. ("Episcopal Things: A guide for non-Episcopalians
to many of the terms and phrases in use around Sewanee," http://smith2.sewanee.edu/glossary/Glossary--Episcopal.html,
as of 9/19/04.)
Mace--the ornate, emblematic baton carried by the President
of the Order of Gownsmen in academic processions just ahead of the Vice-Chancellor;
it is kept in a vault and rests in a special cradle on the organ console
during the convocation service. ("A SEWANEE GLOSSARY," http://smith2.sewanee.edu/glossary/Glossary--Sewanee.html,
as of 9/19/04.)
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"Well,
there is East Middle, and West Tennessee, and there is also
say I, the Domain of the University of the South... And
among these the bravest are the Domainians. This is so,
in my opinion, because Sewanee has had the courage, certainly
more than the other divisions of the state and more than
any other college I know of, to insist upon retaining its
own traditions, its own individuality, its own particularities.
It has tried, as any institution which is to endure must,
to make the world relevant to its own principles and ideals
rather than to accept the values of the world."
- Peter
Taylor, Founders' Day, 1972; excerpt printed, along
with the University Mace, in the defining SEWANEE viewbook,
photography by William Strode, Harmony House, 1984.
The Louise Claiborne-Armstrong Gift to THE
UNIVERISTY OF THE SOUTH.
__________________________________ |
"The teaching of literature and history is the vital
center of education, because the stories of Arthur and Alfred,
Good King Hal and Bad Queen Bess have made the English English,
in the same way that Greeks became Greeks by hearing the
tales of Achilles and Odysseus... New England's public schools
aimed, at first, at imposing Unitarianism... and then when
their ideology took over the national government, at subverting
the loyalties of the recently conquered Southerners and
their naive Trinitarian faith... Their enemy was provincialism
in all its forms- Catholic, Calvinist, Southern, or even
Western. It still is. Maurice Barres, a younger French contemporary
of [Robert Lewis] Dabney, wrote a brilliant case study of
liberal education's action campaign against provincialism-
and its deadly consequences... In Les deracines
(1897), Barres chronicled the adventures of a group of boys
at his own lycee in Nancy. Their philosophy teacher,
brilliant and ruthless, instills in them vast, almost Napoleonic
ambitions to put their talents into the service of the ongoing
revolutionary liberal tradition... Some become dissolute;
others are reduced to poverty; but all begin to collaborate
on a journal of the progressive type... Returning to Nancy
to be feted, his philosophy teacher pronounces the final
verdict: 'I used to admire your talent,... but what I especially
admire is that you are at this point liberated from every
intonation, and more generally, of every peculiarity of
Lorraine.' ...Today, we are fighting the same battle that
Dabney and Barres fought, only on a more limited field,
because the enemy has occupied all our fortresses and redoubts,
leaving us only the hedgerows to dispute. That field is
multiculturalism, whose purpose is the destruction of all
cultures... So long as there is some remote possibility,
if not of winning, then of at least saving something in
our defeat, we should fight on for our cultural legacy."
-Thomas
Fleming, "Fighting Among the Hedgerows," Perspective,
Chronicles,
A Magazine of American Culture, September 2004
"But they could not carry the land away, nor could
they desecrate the idea for which the stone was laid. Men
die and are defeated; and idea is eternal... Off the mountain
in the valleys and plains there was another kind of waste.
The South was beaten, exhausted, and tromped upon... But
still something remained, intangible, incomprehensible.
The South was still undefeated in spirit. So the second
war of conquest was set afoot, the conquest of the Southern
mind... They [Sewanee's Confederate generals] refused, like
General Lee, to sell their names for fraudulent purposes;
and with the sure instincts of an aristocracy, homespun
though it may have been, turned to the true reconstruction
of the South, the Christian education of their young men."
-Andrew
Nelson Lytle, "A Christian University and the Word,"
Founders' Day, 1964, SEWANEE viewbook, 1984
_____________________________
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
front page A1; released Saturday, February 12, 2005,
on the anniversary of the death of Louise Claiborne-Armstrong.
"Through their own distorted view of our past, they
are corrupting the present and perverting the future. It
is ever true that our enemies who seek to control the memory
of our dead ancestors are nothing more than tyrants-in-making.
They will eventually even punish us the living through their
compassion for others. Now it the time to watch them closely;
later will be too late." -J.B.C., THE LAST CHRISTIAN
IN ALABAMA, unpublished |
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(Consecrated
June 3, 1965; in use at Sewanee until 1997; deconsecrated _______________.)
All Saints' Service of Consecration:
Circa late 1950's Seal of THE UNIVERSITY
OF THE SOUTH, 1858,
Narthex entrance, All Saints' Chapel.
| The
Opening Service
of
the
Board
of Trustees
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, A.D. 1965
4:00 p.m. Evening Prayer and
Address by the Chancellor
(excerpts)
THE BLESSING OF THE
UNIVERSITY MACE
After the Grace, the Mace Bearer
shall bring the Mace to the Chancellor, who shall place it upon
the High Altar.
Chancellor: Honour
them who have rule over you.
Answer:
And esteem them highly for their work's sake.
Chancellor: The Lord
be with you.
Answer: And with
thy spirit.
Chancellor: Let
us pray.
O Eternal God, the fountain
of all wisdom, Enlighten with Thy grace all who are responsible
for the exercise of authority in the affairs of this University,
and so rule their minds, and guide their counsels, that in all things
they may seek Thy glory and the welfare of Thy Holy Church; Through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
In the faith of Jesus Christ
and to the Glory of God, we dedicate and bless this Mace, for a
sign and symbol of authority and responsibility, praying that he
before whom it is borne will act always to the glory of God, to
the honor of the State, and to the good name of this University.
In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
THE UNIVERSITY MACE
The University Mace was given to [T]he University of the South -"To
the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of General Nathan Bedford
Forrest" -by a donor who has asked that no publicity be given
to herself. In 1964 she commissioned Shreve and Company, jewelers
of San Francisco, to manufacture the Mace, and for its design she
furnished some of her most prized personal jewels, including a perfect,
blue-white four carat diamond set into the Cross at the top of the
Mace. The Mace has an enameled walnut handle and all the ornamentation
except the gold band is solid silver.
The Mace
will be carried before the Vice-Chancellor, the chief executive
of the University, in all formal processions. The Mace Bearer
will be, ex-officio, the President of the Order of Gownsmen,
the governing body of the students of the University. |
Victorian era Seal of THE UNIVERSITY
OF THE SOUTH, 1858,
including chain circle link of the State of Tennessee, All Saints' Chapel.
Consecrator of the Louise Claiborne-Armstrong gift
to THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH:
Rt. Rev. Charles C.J.
Carpenter,
Bishop of Alabama and
Chancellor of THE UNIVERSITY
OF THE SOUTH |
Born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1899,
during those anticipatory years that Bishop-General Leonidas Polk
still temporarily slept there within St. Paul's Episcopal Church
before Bishop Elliott's eulogized Louisiana prophecy was fulfilled.
Bishop Carpenter had been the ninth rector of Bishop Stephen Elliott's
St.
John's Church in Savannah, which remains even today a faithful
1928
Book of Common Prayer parish. His grandfather was Lt.
Charles Colcock Jones, C.S.A., who had commanded the Chatham
Artillery during the War Between the States. Bishop Carpenter's
great uncle, Dr. Joseph Jones, married Susan Rayner Polk, daughter
of the Bishop-General, and Carpenter's cousin Joseph Merrick Jones,
son of Susan Rayner Polk Jones, is remembered for his generosity
to THE UNIVERISTY OF THE
SOUTH with the plaque in Guerry Hall:
| TO
THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
JOSEPH
MERRICK JONES
AUGUST 30, 1903 - MARCH 11, 1963
GREAT-GRANDSON OF LEONIDAS POLK
AND
EUGENIE PENICK JONES
DECEMBER 20, 1902 - MARCH 11, 1963
HIS WIFE AND PARTNER IN RELIGIOUS AND CIVIC SERVICES |
Bishop Carpenter's great uncle, Dr. Joseph Jones, had served in
Confederate hospitals as a surgeon, and later became the Surgeon
General of The United Confederate Veterans (1889-1896).
Bishop Carpenter (#406) was consecrated into the
Episcopate of Alabama through the laying on of apostolic hands
by Bishops Theodore DuBose Bratton (#214) and William T. Capers
(#270), et. al. Bishop Bratton was for a time a Chancellor
of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
SOUTH, and his father was Brigadier-General
John Bratton, C.S.A, whose biography was written by an alumnus
of The University. Bishop Capers was the son of Brigadier-General
Ellison Capers, C.S.A., who later became Bishop of South Carolina
and served as Chancellor of THE UNIVERISTY
OF THE SOUTH during the 1907 Semi-Centennial
celebration.
(Main sources: ST. JOHN'S CHURCH IN SAVANNAH, Linton
Weeks, 1985; THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE, A True Story of Georgia
and the Civil War, edited by Robert Manson Myers, 1972; http://www.sjoaquin.net/sjao/listbishops.html)
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All Saints' Service of Deconsecration:
Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memory:
| General
Nathan Bedford Forrest (4): 
General Forrest Monument,
Memphis, Tennessee. |
The father of the donor of the University's official
Mace was a contributor to the University and had previously served
as a sergeant under the command of General
Forrest (5), whom he called "an Archangel at the head
of his troops." -Archives
notes, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
SOUTH
"Now that the enemy are drawn far into Georgia,
would it not be a great move to order Forrest with his whole force
to fall in behind the enemy and cut off his trains and much such
a demonstration in his rear as will destroy his army?" -Senator
Gutavus A. Henry, Tennessee, to Confederate Secretary of War James
A. Seddon, May 20, 1864, CONFEDERATE STRATEGY, COMMAND AND CONTROL,
William Scaife, 2005
"...but Forrest
(6) is the very Devil, and I think he has got some of our troops
under cower... I will order them to make up a force and go out and
follow Forrest to the death if it cost 10,000 lives and breaks the
Treasury. There will never be peace in Tennessee till Forrest
is dead." -W.T.
Sherman, Major-General, Commanding, in
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: THE OFFICIAL RECORDS, Series
I, Volume XXXVIII, Part IV, page
480, 1891 |
Member, Forrest Cavalry Corps;
United Confederate Veterans reunion badge. |
"My pleasant-faced, well-mannered freshmen
from South Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Alabama
laugh at the word Yankee,
considering my use of it a kind of local color...
And I have no quarrel in the world with them,
awed as I am by their youth
and their innocence of history....
...on a warm Delta night—
this is the way to be young!
Not to ride and kill with Forrest
(7) all over Tennessee
or die with Jackson at Chancellorsville
or Polk at Pine Mount..."
-Sewanee
in Ruins (excerpts), Richard Tillinghast, 1981
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General Forrest Monument,
Memphis, Tenn. |
"In the end, my journey had centered on the core Confederate
states. And from the Carolina Lowcountry to the Mississippi Delta
to the Shenandoah Valley, I'd often heard the same sentiments expressed.
Everywhere, people spoke of family and fortunes lost in the War; of
their nostalgia for a time when the South seemed a cohesive region
upholding Christian values and agrarian ways, and, most frequently,
of their reverence for larger-than-life men like Stonewall Jackson,
Robert E. Lee and Nathan
Bedford Forrest (8). 'That was our Homeric period,' Robert Penn
Warren wrote of the Civil War, 'and the figures loom up only a little
less than gods.' " -Tony Horowitz, CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC,
Dispatches from the Unfinished War, 1998 |
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General Nathan Bedford Forrest Remembered in Memphis, 1901-
(Courtesy of Civilwartrader@aol.com.)
Anti-Forrest
in Memphis, 2005-
History
or offensive? Forum set
-Commercial Appeal, May 12, 2005
Student
starts petition for renaming Rebel parks -Commercial
Appeal, May 12, 2005
Commemorate
the Confederacy? Just say no- Commercial Appeal,
June 1, 2005
Idea
of renaming Confederate parks fires up lively forum -Commercial
Appeal, June 10, 2005
Debate
on Memphis Confederate parks gets hot -Associated Press,
June 10, 2005
Forrest
statue anniversary celebration stirs controversy for some
-5MCTV, July 8, 2005
Confederate
named park a step closer to change -5WMCTV, July 13, 2005
Parks reflect
South's heritage -Commercial Appeal, July 20, 2005
Confederate parks
vote is today -Commercial Appeal, July 20, 2005
City
Center Commission debates park names controversy -5WMCTV,
July 21, 2005
A plea to save Southern
history -Commercial Appeal, July 22, 2005
Dixie
parks lose in CCC -Commercial Appeal, July 22,
2005
Save history,
boost tourism -Commercial Appeal, July 22, 2005
Council
to Start Debate on Park Name Change Monday -News Channel
3, July 22, 2005
Pritchard: Censorship
can't disguise city's heritage -Commercial Appeal, July
24, 2005
Forrest proposal
moves graves -Commercial Appeal, July 25, 2005
Park plan for
reburial redivides -Commercial Appeal, July 25,
2005
Confederate
group pledges to fight renaming Memphis parks -WVTL TV 8,
July 25, 2005
ALERT:
Memphis City Council to consider desecrating graves and re-writing
history -Southern Heritage P.A.C., July 28, 2005
History
Truth Tracker: The Truth Behind Confederate General Nathan Bedford
Forrest -myeyewitnessnews.com, July 28, 2005
Herenton Keeps Lip Zipped On Renaming Parks -News Channel
3, July 28, 2005
Park
renaming could be dead in the water -5WMCTV, July 29, 2005
It's not a
war, so let's be civil, Lowery says -Commercial Appeal,
July 30, 2005
Council to take on
divisive issue of park names -Commercial Appeal,
August 2, 2005
Mayor faces
parks feud -Commercial Appeal, August 2, 2005
Supporters rally for Dixie
parks -Commercial Appeal, August 3, 2005
Herenton says no to
name changes -Commercial Appeal, August 3, 2005
Remarks from
Mayor Herenton -Commercial Appeal, August 3, 2005
Mayor
Herenton Recommends Giving Away Confederate Parks -News
Channel 3, August 3, 2005
Activists,
Forrest Family React To Herenton Proposal -News Channel
3, August 3, 2005
Mayor says don't rename parks -Commercial Appeal,
August 4, 2005
In
a City on the Move, a Civil War Issue Refuses to Die -New
York Times, August 5, 2005
Seeking
peace in Memphis parks -Commercial Appeal, August
5, 2005
Lowery seeking
'dialog' on parks -Commercial Appeal, August 7,
2005
ALERT:
They are coming to change Forrest Park -Southern Party of
Georgia, August 8, 2005
Sharpton
to Rally Memphis Blacks to Push for Renaming of Public Parks
-BlackAmericaWeb, August 9, 2005
Rally
site changed; march called off -Commercial Appeal,
August 9, 2005
Newspaper
fails on racial issues -Commercial Appeal, August
9, 2005
Battle
Over Park Names Could Be Near End -5WMCTV, August 10, 2005
Groups
split on Forrest protest -Commercial Appeal, August
10, 2005
Two groups
plan Saturday Dixie park -Commercial Appeal, August
11, 2005
D'Army Bailey
fires at wrong target -Commercial Appeal, August
11, 2005
Southern
Christian Leadership Conference Calls Prayer Summit -News
Channel 3, August 11, 2005
Racial harmony,
not more strife -Commercial Appeal, August 11,
2005
Expected Sharpton visit stirs controversy -5WMCTV, August
11, 2004
Together
we stand -Commercial Appeal, August 12, 2005
Opponents
don't want confrontation -Commercial Appeal, August
12, 2005
Herenton
criticizes Sharpton presence -Commercial Appeal,
August 12, 2005
What
others are saying about renaming the city's Confederate-themed
parks -Commercial Appeal, August 12, 2005
Comparing
Confederates to Nazis, Commissioner Walter Bailey scoffs at
compromise -The Memphis Flyer, August 12, 2005
Two
Good Tries -The Memphis Flyer, August 12, 2005
Maxine
Smith talks about parks controversy -5WMCTV, August 12,
2005
At
issue: Renaming Memphis's parks -Commercial Appeal,
August 13, 2005
He'll
get not a dime; Sharpton's here today to stand some ground
-Commercial Appeal, August 13, 2005
Reverend
Al Sharpton Joins Parks Debate -NewsChanel 3, August 13,
2005
Community
readies for Sharpton visit -5WMCTV, August 13, 2005
Dead
for 128 years but still on the move -WorldNetDaily.com,
August 13, 2005
Crowd
shows its favor of Confederate names -5WMCTV, August 13,
2005
Sharpton
leads rally to change park names -5WMCTV, August 13, 2005
SHARPTON
COMES TO TOWN -The Memphis Flyer, August 13, 2005
'Agitators'
vs. Rebels -Commercial Appeal, August 14, 2005
A
call to heritage draws supporters from Georgia, Alabama and
Missouri
-Commercial Appeal, August 14, 2005
Park
talk: From 'you're nuts' to shared ideas -Commercial
Appeal, August 14, 2005
Mayor
will advise council on parks controversy -5WMCTV, August
15, 2005
Parks
vote: a non-starter -Commercial Appeal, August
16, 2005
Mayor
tries to shut down parks controversy -5WMCTV, August 16,
2005
Citizens
Rally to Save Park Names- News Channel 3, August 16, 2005
Day
of debate over park names -5MCTV, August 16, 2005
Mayor
addresses council on parks issue -5MCTV, August 16, 2005
Parks
Runaround -News Channel 3, August 16, 2005
Council
opposes UT park plan -Commercial Appeal, August
17, 2005
Reach
across the divide -Commercial Appeal, August 17,
2005
Times
Editorial: Arguing yesterday -Northwest Arkansas Times,
August 17, 2005
Herenton
ends talks with UT on leasing park -Commercial Appeal,
August 18, 2005
'New
South' wrestles with Confederate memorials -Scripps Howard
News Service, August 18, 2005
History
Lesson -TheBostonPhoenix.com, August 18, 2005
Wharton,
Chumney Propose Parks Solutions -The Memphis Flyer,
August 19, 2005
Is
name a shame for Gordon School? -Commercial Appeal,
August 19, 2005
Does
History Still Matter in the New South? -CapitolHillBlue.com,
August 19, 2005
The
Resistance: Opponents of transforming the downtown parks recoup
and regroup- The Memphis Flyer, August 20, 2005.
Learn
from past, don't erase it -Commercial Appeal, August
20, 2005
Bailey:
Parks debate reveals insensitivity to suffering -Commercial
Appeal, August, 20, 2005
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Nathan Bedford
Forrest historical markers in the State of Tennessee:
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FORREST AND CAPRON, 3 D19
FORREST AND WILSON, 3 D 12
FORREST AT OLD SALEM, 4 D 13
FORREST AT PARIS LANDING, 4 A 32
FORREST AT TRENTON, 4 B 8
FORREST, NATHAN BEDFORD, 4 E 41
FORREST RESTED HERE, 2 E 16
FORREST STOPS WILSON, 3 F 33
FORREST'S ARTILLERY POSITIONS, 4 E 39
FORREST'S BIVOUAC, 2 F 36
FORREST'S BRENTWOOD RAID, 3 D 58
FORREST'S EARLY HOME, 4 E 38
FORREST'S MURFREESBORO RAID, 2 E 53 &
2 E 50
3 A 86
3 A 84
3 A 85
2 E 52
2 E 51
FORREST'S RAID, 4 D 17 &
2 E 50
3 A 86
3 A 84
3 A 85
2 E 52
2 E 51
FORREST'S SEPTEMBER RAID, 3 F 34
(Source: As indexed in TENNESSE HISTORICAL MARKERS,
Tennessee Historical Commission, 1996.)
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Tennessee Historical Commission marker 3A 84, Rutherford County
Courthouse Square, Murfreesboro, Tennessee-
FORREST'S
MURFREESBORO RAID
- July 13, 1862 -
A task force of Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's
Brigade, consisting of the 1st Georgia Battalion
(Morrison) and led by Forrest in person,
charged rapidly to this area at daybreak,
where they overcame one company of the 9th
Michigan Infantry and two companies of the
8th Kentucky Cavalry, released a number of
Confederate civilian prisoners and captured
the area commander, Brig. Gen. T.T. Crittenden,
and his staff, while other units of the
brigade busied themselves elsewhere. |
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___________
Thomas Frank Gailor
S.T.D., D.D. (Oxon), L.L.D.
Third Bishop of Tennessee
First President of the National Council of the Episcopal Church
Chancellor of The University of the South, 1908-1935
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"July
12th on train - July 13, 1912. Murfreesboro. Arrived
at 2 A.M. Speech at unveiling of Forrest Tablet, 11 A.M."
-Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, SOME MEMORIES, 1937
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Bishop Gailor's "Forrest Tablet," UDC marker, Rutherford
County Courthouse, Murfreesboro, Tennessee-
ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
GEN. NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST
BY
THE DAUGHTERS
OF THE CONFEDERACY
FOR HEROIC SERVICES
RENDERED THE CITIZENS
OF MURFREESBORO ON JULY 13, 1862
____
JULY
13, 1912
Opposite-
| PLACED IN
MEMORY OF THE
RUTHERFORD COUNTY BOYS
WHO GALLANTLY SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR
BY THE
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
"THE BRAVE BEGET THE BRAVE" |
|
Confederate monument, Rutherford County Courthouse
square, inscribed:
IN
COMMEMORATION OF THE VALOR OF
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO
DEC. 31, 1862 - JANUARY 2, 1863
AND IN MINOR ENGAGEMENTS IN THIS VICINITY
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
"A
MONUMENT FOR OUR SOLDIERS.
BUILT OF A PEOPLE'S LOVE."
HONOR DECKS THE TURF THAT WRAPS THEIR CLAY.
LEST
WE FORGET
1861 - 1865
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"Howell Cobb, President of the Provisional Confederate Congress
and later a Major General, also wrote Secretary Seddon on July 1,
1864: 'I think that the defense of Atlanta and the certain defeat
and destruction of Sherman's army is involved in some movement to
be made by Forrest (if possible) or some other cavalry on Sherman's
line of communication. If his communication was cut for ten days his
army would be destroyed and Georgia as well as Alabama and Mississippi
saved and Tennessee recovered...' " -William R. Scaife, CONFEDERATE
COMMAND AND STRATEGY, 2005
"Robert E. Lee was asked by a journalist covering the surrender
at Appomattox, 'Who is the finest soldier in your command?' He reportedly
answered, 'A man I have never seen sir, his name is Forrest.' "
-Scaife, 2005
First National Flag of the Confederate States of America,
a.k.a. the "Stars and Bars."
_______________________________
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