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Forrest and Union
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.
** 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.
Not realizing that the rest of his men had halted their charge when reaching the full Union brigade, Forrest charged the brigade single-handedly, and soon found himself surrounded.
Forrest had fewer men than the Union side, but he repeatedly paraded some of them around a hilltop to appear a larger force, and convinced Streight to surrender his 1, 500 exhausted troops.
Forrest set up a position for an attack to repulse a pursuing force commanded by Sturgis, who had been sent to impede Forrest from destroying Union supplies and fortifications.
Concerned about Union supply lines, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman sent a force under the command of Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith to deal with Forrest.
The Union forces drove the Confederates from the field and Forrest was wounded in the foot, but his forces were not wholly destroyed.
Forrest led other raids that summer and fall, including a famous one into Union-held downtown Memphis in August 1864 ( the Second Battle of Memphis ), and another on a Union supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee, on October 3, 1864 ( the Battle of Johnsonville ), causing millions of dollars in damage.
Forrest argued bitterly with Hood ( his superior officer ) demanding permission to cross the river and cut off the escape route of Union Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield's army.
Hood, Forrest engaged Union forces near Murfreesboro on December 5, 1864.
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.
Already in transit to Tennessee, Forrest moved his cavalry ( less one division ) toward Sturgis, but remained unsure of Union intentions.
Forrest soon surmised, correctly, that the Union had actually targeted Tupelo, Mississippi, located in Lee County, about south of Brice's Crossroads.
Forrest, seeing that the Union cavalry moved three hours ahead of its own infantry, devised a plan that called for an attack on the Union cavalry first, with the idea of forcing the enemy infantry to hurry to assist them.
The Union line, initially bolstered by the infantry, briefly seized the momentum and attacked the Confederate left flank, but Forrest launched an attack from his extreme right and left wings, before the rest of the federal infantry could take to the field.
In this phase of the battle, Forrest commanded his artillery to unlimber, unprotected, only yards from the Federal position, and to shell the Union line with grapeshot.
After the battle, the Union Army again accused Forrest of massacring black soldiers.
Caul, his colleague Stan ( John Cazale ) and some freelance associates have taken on the task of bugging the conversation of a couple ( Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest ) as they walk through crowded Union Square in San Francisco, surrounded by a cacophony of background noise.
On 30 April 1863, Union forces under the command of Colonel Abel Streight won a victory over forces under Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Forrest and him
The origins of this was parodied in a famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest is on his multiple jogs across America, and wipes his face on a T shirt given him by a struggling salesman, and on the shirt, as if transferred there by Forrest's face, is the image of the happy face, whereupon the man gets his idea.
* 1987: Con Onor Muore was played during a scene in the erotic thriller Fatal Attraction, in which Dan Gallagher ( Michael Douglas ) tells Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) the childhood memory of his father taking him to see the opera.
In retaliation, Forrest shot and killed two of them with his two-shot pistol and wounded two others with a knife which had been thrown to him.
" After Forrest made death threats against Bragg during a confrontation, Bragg reassigned him to an independent command in Mississippi.
He thanked Forrest for the offer and said that had war broken out he would have considered it an honor to have served side-by-side with him.
The World War II Army base Camp Forrest in Tullahoma, Tennessee was named after him.
Juliet also reveals a note to her father from her alcoholic brother-in-law, Sam Hastings, which in turn reveals that Dr. Forrest gave him a dollar bill " for safekeeping ".
He is especially despised by Private Peter Conway ( John Agar ), the arrogant, college-educated son of an officer, Colonel Sam Conway under whom Stryker served and admired, and Private Al Thomas ( Forrest Tucker ), who blames him for his demotion.
The film portrays him as an " unreconstructed " Confederate, and oddly has him cite Bedford Forrest ( who hated Wheeler ) as his " old friend ".
Barbara Forrest, a professor of philosophy, expert on the history of creationism and activist in the creation-evolution controversy, wrote that Hovind's lack of academic training makes it impossible to engage him on a professional level.
Behind him stand Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Adm. William Halsey and Rear Adm. Forrest Sherman.
Forrest, always a supporter, had left Western Australian politics to become federal defence minister ; defamatory attacks by the press had wounded him.
General manager J. I. Albrecht hired John Huard as head coach, but the Gliebermans overruled him and installed Forrest Gregg as coach before the team took its first snap.
After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks ' title character ’ s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film, The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His policy of enfranchising former slaves brought him into conflict with the newly formed Ku Klux Klan and its leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, which arose from disenfanchised ex-Confederate elements.
Forrest attributed the hissing to the professional jealousy and machinations of Macready, although that artist had been kind and helpful to him when he first came before London audiences.
In his later years, Forrest lobbied for the rights of smaller theatres against the increasingly powerful conglomerated theatre companies, earning him the nickname " Little Man Edwin.
After consulting with the Denobulan Doctor Phlox, Archer convinces Forrest to allow him to deliver a living Klaang to Qo ' noS himself.
The role which launched him to local fame was that of gay paramedic Jamie Forrest in the hit New Zealand TV series Shortland Street.
However, in the last fifth or so of the film, Forrest gets up and leaves the bench, and we follow him as he meets with Jenny and her son.
In the movie Forrest Gump one edition of Curious George ( one with a yellow cover but no other title than Curious George ) is used as Forrest's favorite book, which his mother reads to him.
* In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, Forrest remembers a time when a young man stays at his home and brings a guitar with him.

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