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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Forrest's Exploit in Georgia. (search)
for them and hold them in check till he could come up. It was now late Saturday evening. H selected 300 of his men who were best mounted, and about eleven miles this side of Gadsden, near Turkeytown, he came up with the entire force of the enemy in ambush near night. He ordered an immediate charge, which he headed. The General says that every one of his jaded horses seemed animated with new life, and came up to the work like fresh animals. He says he never saw any thing like it. Here Col. Hathaway, the favorite officer of the Yankees, was killed — it is thought by a private named Joseph Martin, a mere youth, of Company G, Biffle's regiment, with an Enfield rifle, at the distance of 600 yards. This was a severe loss to the Yankees, and did much to dishearten them. Several of their best men were here killed and wounded. Forrest lost two of his gallant men: Privates Hunt, of Starnes's, and Roach, of Biffle's regiments. This battle was on Mr. Blount's farm, and the Yanks, it is sup