General Griffith Rutherford Career - 1776-1794 - Murfreesboro, TN
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Griffith Rutherford, Revolutionary war general, and county named after him
Waymark Code: WM11F8X
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/13/2019
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County or memorial: Rutherford County
Location of memorial: Public Square, courthouse lawn, Murfreesboro
Date memorial erected: 1946
Memorial erected by: Tennessee Historic Commission, Rutherford County Court, City of Murfreesboro, Col. Hardy Murfree Chapter DAR, Capt Wm. Lytle Chapter DAR
Memorial text:
GENERAL
GRIFFITH
RUTHERFORD
1721 ~ 1805
For whom the county was named in 1803
In the early years of the Revolutionary War, he commanded all military forces west of the Alleghanies
Text on back:
1776: Appointed Brigadier General - led 2400 men into the Tennessee country against the Cherokee,
subduing them
1780: Defeated the Tories in the Battle of Ramseur's Mills, in the Battle of Camden under Gen. Gates.
He was wounded and made a Prisoner of War.
1781: Exchanged, he expelled the last of the British Forces at Wilmington
1786: Removed to Sumner County, Tennessee
1794: Commissioned by President Washington & member of the Council of State (Upper House)
of the Southwest Territory, and elected president of the Council
(Lower Base):
Erected in 1946 the year of Tennessee's
Sesquicentennial of Statehood by
Tennessee Historical Commission
Rutherford County Courts
City of Murfreesboro
Daughters of the American Revolution
Col. Hardy Murfree Chapter
Col. Wm. Lytle Chapter
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