Editing Nathan Bedford Forrest (section)

===Sacramento and Fort Donelson===
{{image flip|[[File:Nathan Bedford Forrest 1861–1865 era Carte de visite by Bingham & Brothers Gallery of Memphis, Tenn. Steve and Mike Romano Collection.jpg|thumb|Col. Bedford Forrest ''[[carte de visite]]'' by Bingham & Brothers Gallery of Memphis (Steve and Mike Romano Collection, ''Military Images'')]]}}
Forrest won praise for his performance under fire during an early victory in the [[Battle of Sacramento (Kentucky)|Battle of Sacramento]] in [[Kentucky in the American Civil War|Kentucky]], the first in which he commanded troops in the field, where he routed a U.S. Army force by personally leading a cavalry charge that Brigadier General [[Charles Clark (governor)|Charles Clark]] later commended.{{sfn|Davison|Foxx|2007|pp=36–41}} Forrest distinguished himself further at the [[Battle of Fort Donelson]] in February 1862. After his cavalry captured a U.S. [[artillery battery]], he broke out of a [[siege]] headed by [[Major General#United States|Major General]] [[Ulysses S. Grant]], rallying nearly 4,000 troops and leading them to escape across the [[Cumberland River]].<ref name="Hurst2008">{{cite book|author=Jack Hurst|title=Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AItjjfjiYB0C&pg=PA252|year=2008|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-465-00847-6|pages=252–254|access-date=March 7, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509170149/https://books.google.com/books?id=AItjjfjiYB0C&pg=PA252#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

A few days after the Confederate surrender of Fort Donelson, with the fall of [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] to U.S. forces imminent, Forrest took command of the city. All available carts and wagons were pressed into service to haul 600 boxes of army clothing, 250,000 pounds of bacon, and 40 wagon-loads of ammunition to the railroad depots, to be sent off to Chattanooga and Decatur.<ref name="JordanPryor1868">{{cite book|author1=Thomas Jordan|author2=J.P. Pryor|title=The Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's Cavalry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RcO_Lj_RK4AC&pg=PA104|year=1868|publisher=Blelock & Company|page=104|isbn=978-0722292792|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509170256/https://books.google.com/books?id=RcO_Lj_RK4AC&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Horn1993">{{cite book|author=Stanley F. Horn|title=The Army of Tennessee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBTHxoaz--0C&pg=PA103|year=1993|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-2565-7|page=103|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509170959/https://books.google.com/books?id=mBTHxoaz--0C&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Forrest arranged for heavy [[artillery|ordnance]] machinery, including a new cannon rifling machine and 14 cannons, as well as parts from the Nashville Armory, to be sent to Atlanta for use by the Confederate Army.<ref name="Durham1985">{{cite book|author=Walter T. Durham|author-link=Walter T. Durham|title=Nashville, the Occupied City: The First Seventeen Months, February 16, 1862, to June 30, 1863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-oTAAAAYAAJ&q=%22rifling%20machine%22|year=1985|publisher=Tennessee Historical Society|page=37|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509171034/https://books.google.com/books?id=q-oTAAAAYAAJ&q=%22rifling%20machine%22|url-status=live}}</ref>