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

[233] wind to Memphis and killing 30 and capturing 35 prisoners, who received honorable treatment. This gallant officer pursued to the vicinity of Memphis, and succeeded in holding Hurlbut at Memphis (with an army at his command) until Forrest covered west Tennessee and southern Kentucky, and assaulted and captured the Federal forces wherever located. On the 22d of March, Forrest was at Trenton. On the following day he detached the Seventh Tennessee, McDonald's battalion and Faulkner's Kentucky regiment, and ordered Duckworth (in command) to assault and capture Union City. The commander there, Colonel Hawkins, Second (Federal) Tennessee regiment, who in December, 1862, had been captured at Trenton, after some parleying and skirmishing, surrendered to Duckworth, with 475 men and their arms, ammunition and horses. In the skirmish preliminary to the surrender, Lieut.-Col. W. D. Lannom of Faulkner's regiment was severely wounded. Lannom had served at Shiloh as lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Kentucky. He survived the war and fell a victim to a private quarrel.

Three days later, Forrest was in front of Paducah. Colonel Thompson, anxious for his own home and friends, made a gallant attack on Fort Anderson, a well-protected earthwork invincible to a cavalry attack, and lost his life. A serious attack on this fort was not contemplated, and the fall of the gallant and lamented Thompson made it a grave disaster. Forrest took possession of the city of Paducah, and after holding it for nine hours, retired with prisoners, 400 horses and mules, and a large supply of quartermaster and commissary stores.

Fort Pillow was invested April 11 and 12, 1864. It was garrisoned by about 550 troops, black and white, under the command of Major Booth of the Federal army. Major Booth fell early in the action by a shot from a sharpshooter, and the command was then assumed by Major Bradford, of the Thirteenth Tennessee (Federal) cavalry