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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
was fought at Driver's gap, Sand mountain, in which Capt. W. H. Forrest, a brother of the general, was severely wounded—it wre that a young Alabama girl, Emma Sanson, mounting behind Forrest, at imminent peril of her own life, guided him to a ford, rsuit. Near Gadsden there was a desperate fight between Forrest's men and Streight's command, in which the Federals were wure of the ferryboat, and after crossing it was found that Forrest was ahead of them in the race for Rome and the advance guao get possession of the bridge. On the morning of May 3d, Forrest, with his command reduced to about 500 men, overtook Streior forces of the enemy. While the battle was progressing, Forrest audaciously dispatched an officer to Streight, demanding ider of his whole force. Streight parleyed for awhile, but Forrest with an air of impatience, declaring that he could wait noiers dashed off to obey his orders, as he had given them. Forrest then announced that within ten minutes the signal gun woul