The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-15
A sketch Of Gen. Forrest.

The Atlanta R>gi:ter publishes the following
sketch Of Gen. Forrest, w,i,ten by a person who
is intimate with him
Ihaye just re,u,ned from Tupelo, where I spent
two days with Forrest. 1 have listened in his EN-.
campMPnt 10 stories OF prfsOpa adventure that
transcend in eyciiin: Interest! ALL that narFated
In backs, aud that were told In song and story he
fore knight efrantry lost It's alrac,iVenefs ia the
absurd pages of Don untyoiie. Let me tell yOn
what think of FOncst what ] know OF him. -
There has not been bora Of this revolution a more
remarkable son lie is In truth the off, ,prrg Of
revolution. Had there becH war, Forrest would
he distinguished sn!ciy for excellent good sense,
his indOusahle enetgy, anl tl.e success that dis
uAsuishcd him as piauler and tT1desMan. lie
began ifc in the utmost poverty. He Was iadebt
ed 10 charity fer bread, and JOF nothing 10 books.
When first knew him, fifteen years ago, he
was very poor. lie came 10 Memphis and Tor a
time was the proprietor OF livery stable. la
th,s business he was not very successful When
a t'EisI" young gentleman Oveitaxrd his horses
Forrest was strangely Inc ined 40 p.nish the cas-
temrT. lie was not popular lie became slave
dcat'r. Ey kls truihtutncss and excellent jude-
h,ehi as TO The value OF negroes, he became lle
agent and put chaser OF slaves for the planters ot
lt,e valley Ut the mississippi. hrgrew rich apacc.
wLea the war began he himself was one Of the
Weaithicst planters whose hOMe was in Memphis
Ills ere dit with meIchaIl,s and bankc1s as limit
less His capitol was more than half 4 milliOn
dollars
At the beginning Of the war he amused himself
willie TO Memphis lie brcu shi out lfom Louisville,
when that city was occupied by q large Federal
f0ce, horses and equipments for company Of
cavalry. He then undertook to raise regiment Of
mounted ncn. This accomplished, he t0incd Al
bert iIney Johnston at Bowling Green. Iu every
1 tncoanter with the enemy he was the victor Hf
killed the first man with sabre who thus lost
his life a.tef The war hesan. His victim was a
kess,ucky renegade. huge fellow, who besi0de
4 powerful horse Forrest pursued Lim . mile OF
two TIE kentuckian indi ng escape imp0ssible,
iurard 10 hsht Their sahfes clashed The skiB
from the hack Of the -kent0cklan,s head WAS
peeled oG stassefed by the blow, the Ksstackian
could not parry the M xt stroke. FORESTS sabre
passed ihr0ueh his body.
Hts next achievement VAS announced At Fort
Doncison, whence he escaped when The place was
surrendered. He rode over tue b1lile tifij Of sh-
lOh like aNOtiieg ~: was wounded, Aus only mad
dfncd by pain which would have coasigned other
ssn IL the hospital. In h.s cdnfscts with iafaaary
and cavalry he was uaiiOiMly successful. hr
a~xt caplaIed kutfreshmo', with garrison
tit0Cget than his own force. Thea Came his
famed patsn Of eteeht. When S.reisns had
surrendered be campisiaSd d 10 T0frest that l.e
(fouesi) had deceived him as 10 b o lrfng,h -
.s6ere," satd Forrest, "are y0MT arms, th"ao al
yOMr Mcn shall -bc relmIWed 10 them; here ts an
upca Gstd; we can s""u seltic lhe qaeslioa al
vaior- Hunibcss are nothing. J" Stseiyhl was 81.
leNc Cd.
lG the recent fierce cnconCter WIKI fm.th aRd GIL
cys0p III 10naa, R0sersl hinsself kiitd, light meu
Two u these ts.ll ksssalh his heavy biade. Ills
mcn watch his battle has. they gaihcr ar0und Il,
and viii fellow II Int0 The very Jaws Of death -
t'hcy khOw that Fauese htmseH ever fights be-
. s,as ef eards, and ssys he' can't Keep asl II
ssc. tie q caasssntiy neKel b. o6cess, sOsaless,
aad ctsizrAs . avoid nredssss rxp3saIe 81 his
petsOa, hss at u yata yhs nslss " hssio q the
0sIiAasily hs l. NM asS piarAhle kat when
MadAeaed u vesy Alnd incasn1le. uAls me5et-
l&ss y. MaA wbaan ~ sasptscss Df eOsasalcc.