General Griffith Rutherford - Murfreesboro, TN
Posted by: YoSam.
N 35° 50.776 W 086° 23.540
16S E 554874 N 3967068
Griffith Rutherford, Revolutionary war general, and county named after him
Waymark Code: WMM3GR
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2014
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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