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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
Mower, and let them try their hand. By this victory Forrest not only saved Columbus and the rich prairie region of Mississippi again, but he saved Mobile also by the withdrawal of A. J. Smith's division, which had been ordered to its attack. Roemer, speaking of the battle of Arbela, says: From that great day when in person Alexander led the Macedonian horse, he ranks the first of cavalry generals of all times, and the tactics there displayed were in every respect the same which now receive rallying, attacking the rear, supporting the menaced point, and, to crown all, a pursuit of six hundred stadia (seventy-five miles) in twenty-four hours. Never was there a greater achievement in ancient or modern warfare. When a new edition of Roemer's work on cavaly is written, it is to be hoped that the battle of Tishmingo creek, or Bryce's crossroads, as the Federals call it, will not be forgotten, where the battle was fought and a pursuit of sixty miles made all in thirty hours. The fi