The National tribune., 1909-10-14
FIGHTING FORREST.
Some Regiments That Could Whip Him
at Any Game He Started.


at Any Game He Started.
Editor National Tribune: Some time
ago 1 read an article in your paper
about the relief of a blockhouse on
Overalrs Creek, Tenn, Dec. 4, 1854. /
am of the opinion your correspondent
is q little mixed as to regiments. He
states the blockhouse was in charge of
First Lieutenant of the 18th Ohio.
l am of the opinion it was a First Lieu
tenant of the 17Sth Ohio. Who is right?
Possibly there are few survivors left
of the company that stood Forrest off.
| If so, would be pleased to have the
matter settled right. and credit given
to the boys who were there.
The relief of the company was rather
an expensive one to our regiment. We
had Lieut. Corrington killed, Lieut..
Grandy and Capt. McDougall wounded.
/ had four out of 25 of my men dis
abled, Jacob Green and Pleas Wear
both badly wounded, and Serg't Nash,
who went to the rear, dressed his wound
| in his leg and came back for more.
Green and Wear could not do so. Green
had an arm shattered and Wear his leg
badly shot between knee and ankle.
| The other man wounded / cannot call
| to mind. During our four years pic
nic' our regiment fought Forrest four
different times: Dec. 10, 1862, Salem
Cemetery, Jackson, Tenn; Dec. 4, 1864,
Overall's Creek, Tenn; Dec. :, 1861, at
| Cedars, "Old Stone River Battle
ground" Murfreesboro, Tenn, and Dec
t15, 1864. at Christiania, Tenn, about
eight miles from Murfreeshoro. q de-
tachment of $50 of our regiment and
40 Engineers. Eighty cut thru Forrest
and escaped. 'chiS is the only time
Forrest ever came near licking our reg
iment AS it was he paid dearly, but
he had nothing to brag about, rs We
1,a6 nH
whole brigade he could not get us al.
/ lost in this fght Lieut.. Nat Miner
lmortally wounded, hut escaped with
some of our company except n few who
were captured Our regiment got SO they
considered it holiday to fight Forrest,
and his great fighting and generaiship
was a joke to us. Man for man our
regiment could whip FORE st every day
in the week and then some. The old
43d ILL.,. the 54th Ill., the 18th Mich.
and other regiments / was brigaded
with for years could beat Forrest at
any game he started.
give Gen. Forrest credit Tor being
a great cavalry leader, but when he
came in contact with the above Iegi-
ments there was something doing, not
satisfactory to Gen. Forrest.
never see any communications in
your paper from any member ff my
old regiment / am. @ith the possible
exception of Capt L. NJ. PoSey, Co. A,
the only officer left alive in our r1s<i
ment who was mustered in Feb. 5,
1862. as an officer and reached the rank
of Captain. 1 feel lonesome and sad
when ! call to mind Coils. Fry, Grass.
Ohr, Mutton, Capts. Ihrie, Mann, Man
ming, Lawrence, Mai. Kelly. Capt. Hns-
ser, Reddish, Surgs. Armstrong, Glenn
ons and ]. p. Anthony. Lieuts. Culver.
Miner. Corrington,- Beal, ChuG1, Aiann,
Nevius and so many more, all dead. tiiat
I cannot call to mind without referring
to my records. / recollect all these
young men as but yesterday. ! cannot
yet realize the fact / am getting along
in years, and that taps Ger me w:ll
sound soon. We have a Nation of
young men being trained for war. Some
old veterans say they would not SIGHT.
Forget it; they would, to the last man.
The boys of 1909 are as good as those
of 1861, and better prepared. They are
all rights. T.sCarrico, Captain, Co. b,
IG1st ILL.,, Alva, Okla. f-f ga. e5rs r