Chickamauga by Shelby Foote

Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-77923-6
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

Lieutenant P. S. Backhouse, Company D, Tennessee Cavalry, was this day raised to the honorary rank of Brevet Major General and killed while engaging the enemy. Vice whom Philip St-Just Backus is hereby appointed Lieutenant, Company D, Tennessee Cavalry.

N. B. Forrest Geni

I didn’t see it then. General Forrest picked it up. “Now I’ve got to have a battle,” he said. “Another sheet, son.” I laid that one out on the desk.

“A battle?” Granny said.

“To give Johnston,” he said. “Confound it, Miss Rosie, can’t you understand either than I’m just a fallible mortal man trying to run a military command according to certain fixed and inviolable rules, no matter how foolish the business looks to superior outside folks?”

“All right,” Granny said. “You had one. I was looking at it.”

“So I did,” General Forrest said. “Hah,” he said. “The battle of Sartoris.”

“No,” Granny said. “Not at my house.”

“They did all the shooting down at the creek,” I said.

“What creek?” he said.

So I told him. It ran through the pasture. Its name was Hurricane Creek but not even the white people called it hurricane except Granny. General Forrest didn’t either when he sat down at the desk and wrote the report to General Johnston at Jackson:

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