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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Nathan Bedford Forrest. (search)
General Nathan Bedford Forrest. A summary of some of his remarkable achievements. Bishop Gailor, of Tennessee, contributes to the Sewanee Review for January, 1901, a very readable sketch of the military career of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate cavalry leader, of whom General Sherman once wrote: After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our civil war produced on either side. Forrest's first engagement, at Sacramento, Ky., illustrated the tactics that he followed with such marked success throughout the war—dismounting about one-third of his men in front as skirmishers, and then attacking with the others in two divisions on flank and rear. Passing over the surrender of Fort Donelson, to which Forrest refused to be a party, and which Bishop Gailor characterizes as disgraceful, the next important action in which Forrest had a part was Shiloh, where he captured a battery, and on the retreat to Corinth he saved the Confederate army from destruction