When I was going through Officer Candidate School we had a staff ride to this battlefield. A staff ride is usually to a battlefield and a guide shows you around and there is a discussion of tactics and terrain. Each candidate was given a topic to discuss. For some it was the rifled muzzle loader, cannon, or one of the particular leaders. I drew Cheatham. He was an interesting guy. After the war he was a prison superintendant in Tennessee and the Nashville Postmaster. I am sure that many of you have heard during the Civil War and the Revolutionary War that sometimes there would be something of a "time out" to recover the wounded and dead. Our guide told us that during one time out the troops from both sides did some mingling and bartering. Cheatham went with them and was wearing no rank and was talking with some of the Union soldiers. When they found out who he was they were stunned. It seems that he was quite a charactor.