This is the migration pattern of one Rutledge line that starts far back as we know in Virginia....and before that perhaps in South Carolina.

Map of Tennessee era 1895.

Stephen W. Rutledge during his lifetime traveled the length of Tennessee from his county of birth, Hawkins upper right corner, to a Civil War battle at Fort Donaldson, Fulton County, Kentucky upper left.

After the war the family moved to Tyrone, Texas County Missouri. But from birth up to that time he with his growing family lived in several counties in Tennessee. See them in chronological order here.