The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-18

or heard ausht to his prejudice; he was
q courteous and refined gentleman Of
temperate and moral habits"
He enlisted In a battalion OF cavalry
commanded by his cousin. Colonel
Alonzo Napier, which captured a Fed
/ eral transport -or the Tennessee River.
from which two pieces of artillery
were obtained. They were mounted and
placed In charge OF Gould Napier's
battalion Joined Forrest in his flrst
expedition into West Tennessee in No
vember. 1852 When Morton's Battery
was organized at Dresden Gould's sec
ton was Incorporated in Il. he becom-
Ing first lieutenant. The campaign
closed by Forrest esca ping across thu
tennessee River and returning to Mt
Pleasant and later to Columbia.
In February. 1863. while the COM
mand was reorganizing IN AIaury
county, Gould became engaged TO one
Of tho most beautiful and attractive
young ladies who ever attended tho
Athenaeum: she is still unmarried ana
Keeps his memory in holy reverence
Freeman's battery.
Another battery OF Forests VAS
commanded by Captain sam Freeman,
of Nashville In an engagement on tho
Lewisburg and Franklin Pike mar
Douglass Church on April 10, 1863,
Freeman had been killed ut is said
after he had surrendered). and Leu
With many Of the men; but the Fed
erals did not succeed in removing tho
guns from the field. though they dis
abled tho battery by cutting the
apokes It was thought that Gouii
would be given this battery after the
death of Freeman, but the plum fell
to Higgins, who was exchanged about
the middle OF May. Even this early
there was rivalry among the officers
Tor FORESTS favor. which In some
instances became almost a Jealousy.
The streiRht Raid.
In Strengths raid IN North Alabama,
which added such laurels TO Forests
lame, Could commanded section OF a
battery. In the fight on Sand Noun
tain. near Days Cap on tho last day
OF April. 1888 the Federal line was in
ambush In ravine Forrest had sent
off part of his command By n circuitous
route TO gain another pass in the
mountain. retaining with him only the
newly organized Eleventh Tennessee
Cavalry. Ooulds two guns and Captain
Bill Forests forty scouts.
Probably no general in all history
uHed artillery an daringly as Forrest
did. often advancing n battery on n
skirmish line. and in this affair the
Confederate advance was accompanied
BY Gouid's two twelve FOUNDER brass
howttzers.
Forrest seems TO have gone right
into the trap. and when the Federals
rose from ambush and delivered such
a whitening fire the Confederatos re-
treated Mr. Joe Bellanfant, of Gull
leoka. says that Gould remained Mt
his guns until every man had left and
his own fine black mare was killed.
All the horses being killed or so tan
| gled UP In. the harness that tho guns
could not be Withdrawn. Gould then
retreated, leaving the guns In the
hands Of the enemy. Forrest was not
only enraged at the loss Of the only
two cannon then with him. but was
concerned at the wOunding OF his
brother. Captain Bill Forrest. whose
thigh had been broken by a mimic
ball right at Gould's guns
II must not be forgotten that For
rests only military training was In the
school of experience, and until then he
had never had such an experience OF
the tactical advantages OF the ambus-
cade which Streight used so SUCCESS
fully. Charles NIL bcmonned the ro-
suit of his successive victorious cam
pnisns teaching the Russians the art
OF war; FORESTS common sense did not
require n single campaign or n single
day TO learn 10 profit by such n les
son, for although Streight used the
amhuscade several times on that raid.
Forrest avoided every similar attempt
TO cntrap him.
- HaS pctH SHln .lnul the case WAS
reported TO Forrest IN Il manner that
did not do Gould Justice, and in the
stirring events following tho cantuKc
of Streight and the death OF General
NanDorn. nothing was then done about
1t. -At
The Fight ut Franklin.
On June 4 Forrest moved north from
Spring Hill with Armstrong's anu
Sterns's brigades. and two batteries
to attack Franklin. then under COM
mand of Colonel James p. Baird, of tia
Fighty-flfth Indiana. Some two or
three miles south of Franklin the
Federal pickets were driven III or can
lighting continuing from the streets
and houses. Most of the Federals
took refuge in Fort Granger. across tho
river. but there We're many who re-
NAMED in the houses In town. Mr..
Hardin r, Figucrs. IL leading attorney
of Columbia. WAS then small boy liv-
ing in Franklin. He Tells mo that
Gould had three small pieces OF ar
tillery, which were stationed on the
Carter's Creek Pike. about 100 Yards
west of his mothers honse. Forests
object was for this battery to draw
tho IRE from the fort while he could
capture the town or make a bluff.
In Inducing the fort to surrender
Goulds cannon were very small. ana
seemed to Mr.. Figuers like popguns
compared with the heavy artillery in
the fort. One Of his little balls struck
the arch over the gothic window OF
the Episcopal Church; another struck
the old Presbyterian Church. and an
other cut a cedar tree in the Female
Institute lot.
Gould succeeded in drawing the fire
OF the fort air. Flsuers says ono of
the immense shells passed lust over the
battery and rlowen long furrow
y a 4 = 4
lot in the rear Of ,Gonlds position, and
tho battery waa moved to the west,
where II was better protected IL Is
said that Forrest WAS provoked Mt this,
but he continued OH In the town, cap
turing military mid sutlers supplies:
he also battered down the doors OF the
jail. freeing many political prisoners.
Armstrong's brigade, that was east Of
+ town, was driven hack across the river,
and Forrest was soon shelled out OF