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the Russellville Pike and nearer the Kentucky Hne. 

 Merriweather also had a large stud of race horses, 

 some of them being imported from England. Among 

 the latter he had a stallion named Ambassador, the 

 sire of several good race horses. One of these was 

 a gray horse named Cumberland, whose dam was 

 the gray mare Fraxinella, Jr., by imported Autocrat. 

 He was foaled in 1854 and was raced before he was 

 retired to the stud. 



Cumberland w^as in service in the vicinity of 

 Clarksville from 1857 to 1860. In one of these years 

 Thomas Wilson bred a mare to him and got a gray 

 filly which was named Bettie Wilson. When the war 

 clouds settled over Tennessee and adjoining states 

 in 1861, Charles N. Merriweather sold or gave a 

 number of his thoroughbred horses to officers in the 

 army, Cumberland going to General Albert Sidney 

 Johnson. 



Charles P. Warfield, who told me about the Merri- 

 weather horses also added that when General John- 

 son was shot on the second day of the Battle of 

 Shiloh he was mounted on Cumberland. The horse 

 was also killed. 



Those who are familiar with the details of that 

 important engagement will recall that on the first 

 day of the struggle Johnson^s force almost drove the 

 Northern Army under General Grant from the field. 

 Early the following morning Grant was fortunate 

 in getting reinforcements and with the fresh troops 

 turned what looked like a defeat into a victory. 



Before the fighting started on the second day 



