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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1864., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Forrest Attacks Memphis — captures prisoners, horses, mules, &c. The telegraph, a day or two since, announced that Forrest had made an attack upon Memphis; but the public have been so often misled by dispatches from the Southwest that little iepartment, will show: [by telegraph from Mobile, August 23, 1864.] "The following dispatch was received from General Forrest, dated Hernando, 21st: "I attacked Memphis at 4 o'clock this morning, driving the enemy to his fortifications. escaped in the darkness of the morning, leaving his clothes behind. My loss is twenty killed and wounded. [signed] N. E. Forrest, "Major-General." D. H. Maury, major-general. We do not know that it was the object of General Forrest to cGeneral Forrest to capture Memphis, though we suppose he could have done so had he pushed his advantages.--Memphis is A. J. Smith's base of supplies, and the fact that it is menaced by a Confederate force may, perhaps, induce the Yankee column now in North Mississippi