During Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s raid through West Tennessee from Dec. 15, 1862, to Jan. 3, 1863, his cavalry brigade destroyed railroads, severed Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s supply line between Columbus, Kentucky, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, crossed the Tennessee River at Clifton, defeated Union Col. Robert C. Ingersoll’s cavalry at Lexington, captured Trenton and Union City, ranged briefly into Kentucky, evaded defeat at Parker’s Cross Roads, and crossed the river again at Clifton, prompting Grant to change his supply base to Memphis. During the attack on Trenton on December 20, 1862, Forrest placed his artillery here against Union Col. Jacob Fry’s force of about 250 hastily assembled convalescents and other soldiers near the Mobile and Ohio Railroad depot. Fry had earlier fortified the high ground but, after being ordered to send his regular troops to Jackson, could defend only a small area within the town. Federal sharpshooters stopped Forrest’s initial charge, but Confederate forces surrounded the Union position and shelled it from the hill, and Fry soon surrendered. In 1895, a monument was erected to honor nine Confederate soldiers buried here, six known and three unknown. Local residents buried here include Col. Thomas J. Freeman, born near Trenton in 1827, who commanded the 22nd Tennessee Infantry in battles including Shiloh and Belmont, Missouri, later served with Forrest, and died in 1891, and Col. Munson R. Hill, who moved to Trenton in 1849, commanded the 47th Tennessee Infantry, reached the Battle of Shiloh with his men on April 7, 1862, as the only Confederate reinforcements to arrive there, and died in 1863.