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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08900 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1864 |
| Title | Nathan Bedford Forrest to A. P. Mason about the shelling of Columbia and the condition of prisoners |
| Date | 21 December 1864 |
| Author | Forrest, Nathan Bedford (1821-1877) |
| Recipient | Mason, A. P. |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Writes to Colonel Mason about the shelling of Columbia, Tennessee and the situation of prisoners during the Tennessee Campaign: "I told him [Union General Edward Hatch] that we had no forces in the town excepting a skirmish line, that his fire has endangered his own wounded who are in the town, and that if it did not cease I should place the wounded directly under it. After this the firing ceased." Discusses his correspondence with Hatch about a prisoner exchange and his feelings that it implied that there were no Union infantry to the front of his position. Written at Headquarters near Columbia. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America Union Forces Prisoner of War Injury or Wound Artillery Union General |
| People | Forrest, Nathan Bedford (1821-1877) Mason, A. P. (fl. 1864) |
| Place written | Columbia, Tennessee |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Nathan Bedford Forest (1821-1877) was a self-made man, a planter and slave dealer who, without formal military training, rose to be a Major General in the Confederate Army. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |