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The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Forrest's attack on Memphis. (search)
drove the enemy from his position; he was every where found in the thickest of the fight leading forward his troops. At the head of his escort he charged the enemy's cavalry, consisting of several hundred, and routed them. The enemy seemed anxious to regain the ground occupied by their tents, and which he held, but every effort was repulsed with great slaughter. The enemy had taken refuge in the State College as a fort, and from this position they were doing us some damage; but Major J. P. Strange opened one piece of artillery upon this building, and the Yankees left. It was evident the enemy had some seven or eight thousand troops confronting us. Wishing to bring out the prisoners captured, and seeing the utter folly of continuing a fight where the discrepancy in numbers was so great, General Forrest determined to retire. This he did about eleven o'clock, bringing off two hundred and thirty-eight prisoners, about one hundred horses, and killing and wounding about two hundred