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The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Forrest's great fight — the victory greater than reported. (search)
Forrest's great fight — the victory greater than reported. A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from Tupelo, Miss, under date of June 15, gives the annexed account of Forrest's great fight in Mississippi. On the 1st of June Gen Forrest moved eastward. He had been apprised for some time that a force of from 6,000 to 10,000 was being fitted out in Memphis for an expedition to Sherman's army, in charge of 400 wagon loads of supplies, and for the purpose also of furnishing this much transportation, with a large ambulance train, and twenty-four pieces of artillery, with the troops that accompanied them to Sherman. His force, consisting only of two brigades, (for Chaimers went some where sometime ago) immediately returned to pounce upon the enemy. Rucker's brigade returned from Oxford, and Johnson's command came down from North Alabama. Thus this force, though not half as large as that of the enemy, was at once, and unexpectedly to the enemy, concentrated on