Table of Contents

* Ancestry, Parentage, and Birthplace of General Forrest * Nathan Bedford Forrest a Planter in Mississippi up to June, 1861 * Topographical Sketch of Fort Donelson * Alarm of People in Consequence of Actual Disaster and Exaggerated Reports * Confederated in Battle Order by Dawn * General Forrest assigned to a Cavalry Command at Chattanooga * General Forrest Established his Headquarters at Murfreesboro, Tennessee * Set Out for Expedition into West-Tennessee * Restablishment on Picket Service, with Headquarters at Columbia, Tennessee * Forrests Brigade Ordered to North Alabama * False Report of Another Federal Raid * Topographical Sketch of Theatre of War * General Forrest pursued Enemy upon Missionary Ridge * Beginning of a New Epoch in General Forrests Career * Forrest made a Major-General * Small Brigade of Kentuckians Added to Command * Forrest in Movement upon Fort Pillow * Chalmers Detached with Command to Okolona * Sketch of Theatre of War * Rapid March of Chalmers from Monte Vallo * Correspondence with Department Commander * Forrests Cavalry Reorganized * Campaign to Kentucky Border * Sketch of General Hoods Plans and Movements * Headquarters at Corinth

About the Author

General Thomas Jordan,West Pointer, was the chief of staff to Generals Beauregard, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Braxton Bragg. J. P. Pryor was a professional journalist