The mostly cavalry fight between Confederate Gen. Nathan Forrest’s command and elements of Union Brig. Gen. Jeremiah Sullivan’s troops was where the surrounded Forrest made his famous “charge ‘em both ways command” and escaped.

The property cost $1.3 million with State of Tennessee federal transportation grants totaling $1,120,000 and the Civil War Trust raising the remaining $180,000. McDaniel, a Tennessee legislator and long time proponent of preserving Tennessee’s battlegrounds, said this last major acquisition was critical to interpreting the battle because it was directly in the center of the fighting.

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