...were negroes and hundred-day men. Forrest ordered the troops to be closed up, and the regimental commanders were called together and each given definite instructions as to what he was expected to do. Captain W. H. Forrest , a brother of the general, was sent in advance with forty men to capture the pickets, if possible, but in any event to dash into the city by the nearest route to the Gayoso Hotel, where it was known...