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General Forrest's Farewell Order Memorial
“I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself; nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers, you can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.”
N.B. Forrest, Lieut.-General
Headquarters, Forrest’s Cavalry Corps
Gainesville, Alabama
May 9, 1865
General Orders No. 22
Above is an excerpt from General Nathan B. Forrest’s General Orders No. 22, which expressed his farewell to his troops. The memorial located in Beech Grove Confederate Cemetery contains a larger excerpt from those farewell Orders. The soldiers originally buried at Beech Grove were killed in the Battle of Hoover’s Gap (June 24-26, 1863), which was part of the Tullahoma Campaign and an important turning point in the Civil War, though overshadowed by two other Union victories that summer of 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg.
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