Hmmm...
Not on word about Nathan Bedford Forest,who refused to surrender,ESCAPED from Ft.Donaldson !
Forrest is by far my favorite Confederate leader, though I think not yet a general.
My great grandfather’s Union regiment met him twice in battle and both lived to tell the stories.
Arguably Forrest was under-used by Confederates, as was another famous southern General, Patrick Cleburne, though for different reasons...
NBF greatest General in the WONA produced by either side!
Recently moved from his burial site in Memphis to Columbia Tn.
Attacked and decimated the Criminals at Fort Pillow who had been carrying out Grant and Sherman’s burn out all in West Tennessee who allow Forest free reign in their communities.
Waded out with 1500 men from the Fort Donaldson surrender folly. Union army sentrys thought to be guarding the escape route turned out to be fence posts.
A man named Hinson waged a one man war with a sniper’s rifle after his two young sons were decapitated by the yanks for deer hunting on his plantation in the Donaldson area, over 130 kills including the one responsible for his boys deaths.
I am in Clifton TN where Forest crossed twice into West Tn. Come to Clifton for the Golf. Jack Nicholas course. Bryce’s Crossroads near by in Ms. Shiloh up river a ways.