The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-18

| sat down quietly to take account of stock,
as it were. AS he stated in dispatch to
Bragg, he had made a clean sweep of Fed
erals north Of jackson and west of the
Tennessee river. He had killed and wound
ed 100 of the enemy; had captured l 200, in
Guiding colonies, ma ors, 10 captains
and % 1ieutenantS His own loss was s
killed, IL wounded and missing. He was
at the end of his northward journey.
After destroying four miles of trestle
work and the bridges on the Obion river
Forrest started to return to middle Ten
nessee. Meanwhile his almost unopposeG
progress northward had spread confusion
among his enemies from Washington all
along the southern border to Grants head
quarters in Mississippi. To complicate
matters in the Union lines still further Gen.
Earl Van Dorm had dashed into Holly
Springs, Miss. where Grants immediate
supplies were stored, and burned up every
thing. This occurred Oh the 10th. On the
23d Grant sent word to the commander of
the expedition going down the Mississippi
by water that he Grant would be obliged
to abandon the overland route on account
of the raids in his rear and had fallen back
from Oxford. 1t was supposed at first that
Van Dorm moved north from Holly Springs
to join Forrest, and it was also supposed
that Forrest had with him all the cavalry
Of Bragg's army, which he formerly COM
manded, instead of merely a brigade, with
the addition Of a battalion under Col. Ma
pier that joined at Trenton on the Goth. 1t
was believed at army headquarters and in
Washington that Forrest would push north
to Columbus, KY, and perhaps recapture
Island No. 10. kilograms buZzed over the
wires in all directions The petty COM
manders invest Tennessee were bothered
with contradictory orders, being told TO go
north to catch Forrest, east to head him off
from recrossing the Tennessee, and south
to confront Van Dorm. Out of all the ac-
tivity there was evolved movemen. of
force under Sen. Sullivan northward from
Jackson to Trenton and then eastward to
Huntington. This brought it south of For
rest, and between him and any practicable
point of recroSsing the Tennessee river.
Forests scouts kept him well informed
of all that menaced him, and on the 26th
the raiders made a forced march from
Union City in the direction of Huntington.
Being warned of what awaited him there,
and not at ali anxious for prospective glory
with the alternative of a whipping, Forrest
prepared TO slip through between Hunting
ton and Trenton. The Obien river lay
across his path with all the bridges gone,
excepting one that the enemy had deemed
impossible and bed not destroyed. This
the raiders strengthened by spikes, and For
rest, in order TO give confidence to his dis
heartened men, drove the first team across.
On the 3vth tire raiders encamped nine
miles from Lexington. In the morning For
rests advance was net At the Junction OF
the Huntington road by the brigade OF Col
c. l.. DunhaEa, the advance Of Gen. Snfh-
vans force, moving from Huntington
southwark to intercept him The battle OF
Parker's Gross Roads followed, and For
rest got the worst OF il. He lost ms am
nunition train. but saved everything ease,
srd fearnils that anoe her force was parsu-
ing him from Trenton be pushed rapidly
toward Clifton and OF zoe morning o< Jan |
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