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The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Forrest's great fight — the victory greater than reported. (search)
ommitted by the enemy in the expedition exceeded all former example. Houses were robbed of every necessary to the support of families. Ladies insulted and outraged; children robbed of their clothing, and left naked, crying and hungry; old men choked and gagged, and in some instances beaten nearly to death; women kicked out of doors for murmuring at these wrongs, and knocked down by buck negroes in the presence of their husbands. These are some of the injuries that the poor people of North Mississippi have had to endure within the last ten days; and it is things like these that make 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 history. The Southern man who would not fight now, is unfit for freedom, and ought not to enjoy it. The Mississippi Prairie News gives the following fact, derived from Forrest's chief quartermaster: Yankees killed, 1,000, wounded, 1,50