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Crossland's brigades, but in the outset Forrest was painfully wounded, and he relinquished the command to General Chalmers.
Chalmers reported that on assuming command he ‘found our men falling back and the enemy pressing up to the position on which I had left my brigade.’
He continued the pursuit for two days, but without result.
Forrest's regiment, commanded by Col. D. C. Kelley, was conspicuous in the combat at Old Town creek.
The prestige of the regiment given to it by its original commander, General Forrest, was maintained under Kelley on every field.
The church gave Colonel Kelley to the regiment, and after four years of splendid service as a soldier, he returned to the work of his earlier years, where his great talents and noble character have acquired for him an unbounded influence for good.
The Federal losses at Harrisburg amounted to 77 killed, 529 wounded. Chalmers' division lost 57 killed, 255 wounded; Buford's division, 996 killed, wounded and captured; the killed, 153, and the wounded, 794, being equally divided between Bell's, Mabry's and Crossland's brigades.
The Seventh Tennessee mourned the loss of Captains Statler and Charlie Claiborne; the Second, of Capt. J. M. Eastes, Lieuts. J. E. Dunning, A. H. French and A. W. Lipscomb.
The Fifteenth lost Capt. J. M. Fields and Lieut. T. Hawkins; the Sixteenth, Lieut. S. C. Kennedy and Ensign Thomas Paine; the Nineteenth, Capt. W. D. Stratton, Lieuts. W. T. Hallis and J. P. Meeks.
In Morton's battery, Lieut. Joseph H. Mayson, Sergt. John H. Dunlap and Corporal Bellanfant were wounded, and within a few minutes five of the seven cannoneers of Sergeant Brown's piece were seriously wounded.
Other gallant men should be mentioned, but official reports of casualties are meager.
The Federal garrison at Memphis was attacked by General Forrest at 4 a. m. of the 21st of August, 1864, and by his quick and bold assault he captured 400 prisoners
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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