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Confederate Retreat at Sugar Creek

Confederate Retreat at Sugar Creek is a Tennessee historical marker in Giles County.

Giles Co. Sugar Creek

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Retreating after the Battle of Nashville, the rear guard of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under General Nathan B. Forrest, and Edward C. Waithall, surprised and halted the Federal advance here on the morning of December 26, 1864, in the last battle of the campaign. The Confederate Army then continued the retreat to the Tennessee River.

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