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Forrests Sulphur Trestle Raid in North Alabama
Gen Nathan B Forrest leads a 1864 raid into Alabama and Tennessee targeting the Sulphur Branch trestle and rail line between Decatur and the Elk River. The fortified Sulphur Trestle held a large garrison but fell after bombardment and negotiations, with heavy Union losses and extensive property destruction along the line.
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Nathan B. Forrest
North
Alabama
Lower
Tennessee
Phillip Kyle
Decatur
Elk River
Elkmont
Forrest
Corinth
Mississippi
Confederacy
C. W. Anderson
Tennessee River
Newport
Ross Ford
Colbert’s Shoals
Florence
Athens
Shoalok
Roddey
Bainbridge
Buford
Bells
Lyons
Masonville
Twentieth Regiment
Tennessee Cavalry
Jesse A. Forrest
Fourteenth Tennessee Cavalry
McDonald’s Station
Second
Barteau
Anderson
Bell
Kelley
Lyon
White
Brown’s Ferry
Campbell
Fifteenth Tennessee
Morton