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Union Colonel Streight and his men were captured by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
* October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate Civil War General
** American Civil War – Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
* November 4 – American Civil War – Battle of Johnsonville: At Johnsonville, Tennessee, troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest bombard a Union supply base with artillery and destroy millions of dollars in material.
Meanwhile, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest harassed Union forces in the area.
Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest
On April 12, 1864, General Forrest led his forces in the attack and capture of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee.
A contemporary newspaper account from Jackson, Tennessee, stated that " General Forrest begged them to surrender ," but " not the first sign of surrender was ever given.
I, with several others, tried to stop the butchery, and at one time had partially succeeded, but General Forrest ordered them shot down like dogs and the carnage continued.
One month later, while serving under General Stephen D. Lee, Forrest experienced tactical defeat at the Battle of Tupelo in 1864.
The committee also noted, " The natural tendency of all such organizations is to violence and crime ; hence it was that General Forrest and other men of influence in the state, by the exercise of their moral power, induced them to disband .”
A statue of General Forrest was erected in Memphis's Nathan Bedford Forrest Park.
It pitted a 4, 787-man contingent led by Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest against an 8, 100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis.
American Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest had only one: " to git thar furst with the most men " or " to get there first with the most men ".
General Nathan Bedford Forrest fought an engagement near Alpine with Federal cavalry resulting in the Federals being thrown back to the Chattanooga area.
General N. Bedford Forrest and General Abel Streight skirmished briefly in the town on May 1, 1863, and Major General Lovell H. Rousseau and his cavalry occupied the town in July 1864.
To the east of the city, there is a Civil War site where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated Abel Streight and his band of raiders.
On 30 April 1863, Union forces under the command of Colonel Abel Streight won a victory over forces under Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
It was named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who used the location as a campsite for a construction crew completing a railroad between Memphis and Little Rock, shortly after the Civil War.

Lieut and .-
# a full length representing Lilburne ' pleading at the bar with Coke's ' Institutes ' in his hand ; prefixed to ' The Trial of Lieut .- col. John Lilburne, by Theodorus Varax ,' 1649.
In addition to these, there are the monuments to Admiral Sir Charles Wager, Vice-Admiral Watson, Lieut .- General Percy Kirk, George Lord Viscount Howe, General Monck, and Sir Henry Belasye.
The Chancellor for at least a decade prior to 1975 was Lieut .- Col., J. C. du Parc Braham, TD ( 1920 – 1990 ).
By his wife, Mary Ann, a daughter of Lieut .- General William Cockell, he had four sons and two daughters.
Served in World War I, 1914-18 under Sir William Reginald Hall, Director of Naval Intelligence, in Room 40 Admiralty, as Lieut .- Cmdr.
* Behind the German Lines: Amazing Confessions of Col .- Lieut.
married June 14, 1875 as his second wife Emily Louisa, daughter of Lieut .- Col. Philip Delatre, late 1st Ceylon Regiment, and his wife, Amey Scolding.
Lieut .- General Sir Henry William Stisted, ( 1817 – 10 December 1875 ), served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Confederation, from 1867 to 1868.
She was the eldest child of Lieut .- Colonel George Lucas of Dalzell's Regiment of Foot in British Army, and his wife, Ann ( probably Mildrum ) Lucas.
Lieut .- General Augustus Pitt Rivers carried out excavations at the Wansdyke in Wiltshire in the late 19th century, considering it the remains of a great war in which the southwest was being defended.
Report on the 4th ( Quetta ) Division Staff Ride Under the Direction of Lieut .- General H. L.
Introduction by Lieut .- Gen. Sir H L. Smith Dorrien.
Major George Arthur married Eliza Orde Ussher, daughter of Lieut .- Gen. Sir John Sigismund
Prim was the son of Lieut .- Colonel Pablo Prim.
After Butler died in 1783 the property changed hands several times, then in 1819 it went to Lieut .- Col. John Johnson, C. B., colonel of engineers in the Hon.
Some time afterwards he was appointed Inspecting Field Officer at Bedford, received the rank of Lieut .- Colonel in the Army 1 January 1800, and the command of the London Recruiting District, in February 1809.
In December 1803, the Bank of England Supplementary Volunteer Corp presented Lieut .- Colonel Robinson with a splendid piece of plate, " as a testimony of their respect and esteem, and the high sense they entertain of his great attention in bringing them to their present state of discipline.
He attained the rank of Lieut .- General 27 May 1825, and that of General 23 November 1841 ; and was appointed to the command of the 39th regiment on 15 June 1840.
Another friend he made in Purulia was Lieut .- Col. J. J.
Frederick Broome, rector of Kenley, Salop, by his wife Catherine Eleanor ( eldest daughter of Lieut .- Colonel Napier, formerly Superintendent Indian Department, Canada ) was born on 18 November 1842 in Canada.
For this service he was warmly thanked by the Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape Colony, Sir Bartle Frere, and by the colony off Natal through its Lieut .- Governor, Sir Henry Bulwer, his action being also fully approved by Her Majesty's Government.
Sir Thomas S. Raffles, Lieut .- Gov.
Lieut .- Gen. Thomas Hardwicke.
* Vetch, Life, Letters, and Diaries of Lieut .- General Sir Gerald Graham ( Edinburgh, 1901 ).

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