James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

[227] rode up and shot him through the head. General Forrest is authority for this statement. The history of the war does not show an act of greater infamy. No murder by poison, or lying in wait, was ever attended by circumstances of greater atrocity—an unarmed man, a prisoner of war, assassinated by an officer! Captain McIntyre, commanding the Fourth regulars, reported that he recrossed the river, ‘bringing with me a captain, one second lieutenant and 34 prisoners.’

On the 8th of April, 1863, General Rosecrans notified Col. A. D. Streight, Fifty-first Indiana volunteers, that he had been assigned to the command of an independent provisional brigade, including his own and the Seventy-third Indiana, Eightieth Illinois, Third Ohio, and two companies of the First Middle Tennessee cavalry raised in north Alabama, with orders to proceed south and cut the railroad south of Dalton, Ga., so as to prevent troops being sent by that route to the army of Tennessee. Streight was supplied with a pack-train of commissary stores and ammunition, and his command, 1,700 strong, was mounted generally from horses and mules taken from citizens.

After elaborate preparation, Streight moved out from Moulton, Ala., on the night of the 28th of April. The next day he marched to Day's gap, 35 miles, and found himself in the midst of ‘devoted Union people,’ with no foe to molest him. But very soon an unexpected enemy attacked his rear guard and the ‘boom of artillery was heard.’ ‘I soon learned,’ he said, ‘that the enemy had moved through the gaps on my right and left.’ Forrest was upon him. At Driver's gap, of Sand mountain, he fought the Federals day and night, with two regiments, with a loss of 5 killed and 50 wounded. Streight left on the field 50 killed and 150 wounded, burned his wagons, and turned loose 250 mules and 150 negroes.

On the 3d of May, between Gadsden and Rome, after five days and nights of fighting and marching, General