Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-13
THE HERO OF TIE MURFREESBoRW DASH.

The public will be glad to learn something of
Gen Bedford Forrest the man who captured MUIR
freesboro and two regiments of Yankee troops with
= small force The Atlanta COataderacy says:
General Forrest is about 45 years old is six feet
two inches in altitude, weighs Us pounds, has no
surplus flesh, is eject well proportoned, and moves
with great case. But few men are his equal in mus
cular power. He has a dark complexion, black
hair and thin black beard. lie has full and ex-
panSVe forehead, black, piercing eyes, deep, set,
heavy black eyebrows and q stern but not unpeaS-
ant face. Firmness and courage are stamped in
every lineament of his features which are greatly
set off by the most perfect and beautiful set Of teeth
We ever saw. He is q native Of Tennessee HIS
father was a Kentuckian, and the son of an emf.
grant from Holland, who accompanied Dan' Boone
to the wilderness of Kentucky in ancient DAYS.
Bedford was brought up farm, and is familiar
with the of the axe, the knife and the rifle He
first commenced horse trading OH small scale
Then he got hold of fast quarter nag, and in one
year made 81 900 out of a trip through Mississippi
and Louisiana Stopping at fernando Miss, at the
summer races, he won good pile Of currency, and
finally, at the close of the week. took deed to the
landlords premises. and opened up hotel in HeI-
nando, in North Mississippi Here be kept
hoter and dealt in horses for several years. In the
meantime he married beautiful and accomplished
lady, by whom he has an only son a sprghtly lad
of 10 years.
railroad and river facilities, and the prospect of it
rapidly becoming great city, Col Forrest sold out
moved to Memphis, where in few years. by his
energy probity, and fine judgement, he amassed
large fortune. He has frequently been Alderman
Of the city. He always took an active and decided
part upon every public measure, and generally car
ried his point in everything calculated to enhance
the interest of the city He ably advocated every
public Improvement, and soon stood at the head Of
the able financial business men of that fast and
hourshing city.
Three years ago he purchased large body of
bottom lands in Bolivar county, Mississippi. lie
selected, from time to time one hundred of the
hkeliest negroes that came into the Memphis mar.
ket-tifty Of each sex-and stocked his planta. on
1t Is sand to he the best selected and keest lot of
negroes ever seen one plantation.
lie had retired from trade, and was spending his
time mostly on his plantation when the war broke
out. Alter Tennessee seeded, and the blockade
wSs established, he went in person to Cincinnati
aid ST Louis, and bought horses, arms and accou-
trelnents for cavalry regiment, which he had
fa'sed and brought them all through safely to Mem
phis, since which time he has been engaged in q
number Of brilliant skirmishes and fights
lie was at Fort Donelson, is one of the men who
refused to be surrendered and is the man who cut
his way through. the enemys lines with bis com.
mand sustaining but little loss. At Shiloh he was
in the thckest of the fight rendering the most i'm.
portant services, where he received severe wound.
But, thank heaven, he is again himself and in his
| stirrupS
Ills late dashing exploits about Chattanooga and
especially his brilliant achievement at Murfreesboro'
anu the capture Of Lebanon are fresh the minds Of
all our readers Gen. Forest is not an educated man
out ne reaos men correctly at glance. lie seems
20 kno" everything about him by intuition. We
i nave spent months with him, and partaken of his
''ssSn' n0sp"altieS and unhesitatingly pronounce