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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for N. B. Forrest or search for N. B. Forrest in all documents.
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Forrest in Memphis.
We published a day or two since a Confederate account of Forrest's dash into Memphis.
We find in the Memphis News, a Yankee sheet published there, a much more lively accounForrest's dash into Memphis.
We find in the Memphis News, a Yankee sheet published there, a much more lively account of the affair, which we give below:
About daybreak, our citizens residing in the southern part of the city were awakened by the tramp of a large body of cavalry and the occasional report of a r at the Gayoso, immediately after General Hurlbut and staff, some rebel wrote down, "Major- General N. B. Forrest and staff."
A party of rebels charged on General Washburne's headquarters, shot under command of Colonel Bell, of the Thirteenth Tennessee cavalry.
A prisoner stated that General Forrest stopped at a house about two miles from town.
Bill Forrest, a brother of the General, was Forrest, a brother of the General, was recognized by a citizen among the party; also Bob Casey and Tom Logwood.
What was the object of the raid, it is hard to tell.
Many think it was for the purpose of capturing Generals Washburne, Hurl