Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios - Major-General B. F. Cheatham

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                                  CHEATHAM
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   CHEATHAM, MAJOR-GENERAL B. F., was one of the most effective
   Confederate officers of the Western army. Having had military
   experience in Mexico, he was early appointed a brigadier-general, and
   commanded the troops forced back to Paducah, Ky., by Grant in 1861. As
   a major-general commanding a division of Bragg's army he rendered
   important service to that commander in 1862 and 1863, especially at
   Perryville, where, for a time, he overcame McCook; and at
   Murfreesboro. In the series of battles which began with Chickamauga
   and ended with the capture of Mission Ridge, he bore a prominent part,
   and continued in active service until the close of the great conflict,
   when he retired to private life on his farm in Tennessee.