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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 fGen 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 furnisy made good their escape. The pursuit was renewed early in the morning, Gen Forrest following before daylight with his escort and 7th Tennessee, fighting the enake them grateful once more for their deliverance, and have nerved the arms of Forrest's soldiers to fight like demons and to perform deeds of daring unequalled in hy it. The Mississippi Prairie News gives the following fact, derived from Forrest's chief quartermaster: Yankees killed, 1,000, wounded, 1,500, captured,