What Forrest has done.
--The
Jackson (Mississippi) papers of the 18th ultimo contain an address of
General Forrest to his troops, recounting the result of his operations during the past year.
He says they have fought fifty battles, kills and captured sixteen thousand of the enemy, captured two thousand horses and mules, sixty seven pieces of artillery, fourteen transports, twenty barges, eight hundred wagons, fifty ambulances, one hundred and five stand of arms, forty block-houses, destroyed thirty-six railroad bridges, two thousand miles of railroad, six locomotives, and one hundred cars — amounting to fifteen million dollars' worth of property.
In accomplishing this, he says they were occasionally sustained by other troops, but says their regular number never exceeded five thousand.