... into us (at Okolona) and gave us a pretty rough handling, inflicting upon us a loss of perhaps 300 or 400 men killed, wounded and missing. General Forrest reported that his brigade, commanded by Col. Jeffrey Forrest , successfully disputed Smith's crossing of the Sakatonchee creek, forced him to retire toward West Point, and drove him from that place to within ten miles of Pontotoc, in two days. Forrest pursued t...