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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
n he had extorted, over $5,000 from the citizens of Jackson, Tenn., under a threat of burning the town. He was, said the order, guilty of house burning, guilty of murder of both citizens and soldiers of the Confederate States. The victims were comrades, or kinsmen and friends of Forrest's cavalry, and yet with a full knowledge of these gross outrages, no Federal prisoner (and hundreds were captured) received other than humane treatment. General Hurlbut was relieved from command on the 16th of April, not because he tolerated Hurst and his kind, but, said General Sherman, You are relieved because there has been marked timidity in the management of affairs since Forrest passed north of Memphis. Brutality to citizens and barbarity to prisoners called forth no protest; timidity in the face of danger was the only sin. On the 29th of March, Colonel Neely, Thirteenth Tennessee, engaged Hurst near Bolivar, capturing his entire wagon train, routing and driving him on the wings of the wi
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
e engagements of the Southwest until, on the promotion of General Bate, he was made brigadier-general. At Missionary Ridge he was dangerously wounded and permanently disabled, and was not in the field again until Major-General Wilson, with 10,000 cavalry, was sent to Alabama and Georgia to lay waste and destroy the country. General Tyler, still on crutches, was sojourning near West Point, Ga., when Col. O. H. LaGrange, commanding a brigade of Wilson's cavalry, entered that place on the 16th of April and made an easy capture of a lot of quartermaster and commissary stores. Hearing of the approach of LaGrange, General Tyler organized a lot of convalescents and Georgia militia, and undertook the defense of a little earthwork provided for the protection of a railroad bridge and called that day Fort Tyler. Colonel LaGrange reported that it was defended by two field pieces and a 32-pounder, and 265 desperate men. There were no trained gunners in the garrison, so no one of the attacking