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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
, you have not asked my opinion about this fight; but I tell you, we are going to be badly whipped. Forrest replied, sharply: You don't know what you are talking about; we'll whip 'em in five minutes. Buford replied: I hope you may be right, but I don't believe it. Forrest was a great general; but he never rose to that greatness and dignity of soul which enabled Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg to assume the responsibility of a failure. The second invasion of A. J. Smith. On the 19th of July, 1864, General Grant telegraphed from City Point, Virginia, to General Sherman: I see by Richmond papers of yesterday that Smith has left Tupelo. Although they call it a retreat, I judge from S. D. Lee's dispatch that Forrest has been badly whipped. Smith, however, ought to be instructed to keep a close watch on Forrest and not permit him to gather strength and move into Middle Tennessee. General Sherman gave the order, but he no longer talks so flippantly about whipping Forrest as he h