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Daily Archives: August 21, 2014

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 21, 1864

Today at 4 a.m. Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his cavalry raiders make a daring raid on Memphis, Tennessee, a town controlled by some 6,000 Federal forces. Galloping down the streets of Memphis, the Rebel forces set about looking for Union generals stationed in Memphis, in order to capture them, while freeing Confederate…

August 21, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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