Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864

Wooten’s study includes the best and most detailed account of the battle of Johnsonville, when Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led his cavalry through western Tennessee on a 23—day raid. On November 4–5, 1864, Forrest’s troopers attacked the Federal supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee, destroying tons of invaluable supplies. The complex land—water operation nearly wiped out the supply depot, severely disrupted Gen. George Thomas’s army in Nashville, and impeded his operations ag...