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MULLARKT & HARTY 810 Broad St., jAugusta, Q GEN'L FORRES CAREER OF THE GI CAVALRY LEADEB Reviewed by General Wolseley-An Interest! Critique of a Daring i American Genius. He Was a Soldier by Intuition. - ? General Wolsely, the hi military authority in the B: empire, has for several been contributing to the maga and the press, critiques pr careers of generals in American civil war. His encomiums on Lee Jackson are among the stroj ever pronounced, while criticism bf other southern ofl has been severe. Lee. he considers the soldier of the war, if not of century. In the following art prepared for The Constitution writes of General Bed . Forrest, the dashing cav leader on the confederate i whose name, along with thal Stuart, will go down to post? in song and story*. General Wolsely thinks American mounted troops A not strictly cavalry, fighting horseback, but using horses m ly as a means of getting ab ano* fighting with the pi oftener than with the sabre. After the preliminary discust General Wolsely comes to subject which he treats in parts, in this interesting way: PAKT ?. . You cannot make the cave soldier or the mounted sold whatever may bo his functions war, think too highly of hims His training teaches him that belongs, as it were, to aristocracy of the army, and t his work, always in the frc is the most important, and pla him in a position far above t of what the. ^-^*^a^w?r the "PeidaP ' cavalry song ?.? <m Forrest, Fiti Sheridan, S. , leaders of justly the popular heroes of day. I can only remember refrain, which ran thus : I "If you want to smell hell, j jine th6 cavalry-jine cavalry !" A general officer, "who r with Forrest" for the last y ; and a half of the war, gives us ' following information.- Referr to his leader's career, he * writ "Many of his victories w achieved with men. who 1 r never been drilled oue h together." A general officer, who \ tForrest's second in commi when speaking of his pecul mode of fighting, said : "His qui dismountsng of his men to fig showed that he regarded hoi mainly as a rapid means = transportation for his troops." we wish to know whatiarge bod of mounted riflemen can do, must study the operations of F rest and of Stuart, and learn I from what Sheridan ccomplisl with the splendid force under command in Virginia. Th leaders were the masters of an ?b?t long-disused fighting art, i it is from their operations must learn it now. General Forrest was born S, 1821 of very humble parei He was therefore, just forty wi he first donned the soldier's g }?? as a private in the Tennet ng Mounted Rifles. In the v borderland of civilization, wi he had been reared, he had h ever, been accustomed to the of arms from earliest boyhc There life was hold cheap, J = even the peacerloving citizen w about his ordinary avocati Qduly armed with pistol and bo knife. Many were the wounds ceived by Forrest, and many hairbreadth escapes in the perse encounters, he had to engage ii rr a young man. "Lynch law" often resorted to by the commur in which he lived and in the r and reckless society of his er surroundings, the first lesson learned was that self-preserval )g and personal defence of 01 own property with steel and bu was the first great and n ? important law of nature. His father died when, future general was a boy of c sixteen years. The eldest soi g,B eleven children, upon 1 then' devolved the cai maintenance of his mot his many brothers ?nd They lived oh ?little ?ente lately cleared from the wi! ( and it was only by the manual labor he was ax fir to provide with food thoi were dependent upon hin locality was unhealthy, am carried off several of the and very nearly killed hil But his naturally robust con enabled nina to pull tl through it was many mouthe he fully regained his strength. His education was most n and what he 1 earned as a bc picked up at odd times from schoolmasters. He couh read and write and do son simple sums in arithmetic. I it may be assumed that ( all his career as general his and dispatches were writh him by the educated me collected round him as officers. They put into good English the views or order dictated, but he was, ho^ very exacting that his lett?i his addresses to the men, an Qther papers he signed, si contain his own ideas, anc those of the staff officer wh his amanuenses. But thous book learning was extre scant" he was brought up in Napoleon termed the best of tary schools that of poverty, early.years were little more tl continued struggle for . ? existence in a lawless bordei of civilization. There he lea the invaluable qualities of er ance, self-reliance, quicknes decision and dauntless com whioh are so necessary for wei pioneers. Bu t if these qualitie essential to the man who ha wrest the backwoods from In savagery/ they are -still moi for him who aspires to lei mounted force such as his Kdi/ril?? t?:!.. ' Frvrvi r.* -'< ?mTjrrvxx :::.:r':i:'^^ K **, t;? r?r>c liW'eiii." ?? v-.-?? li? ra ? the ag." ^( r., -'.ibo'-?. li T ?hall pass over this ?nteres period of his nie, v??io*o . and years of incessant, toil . only now and then relieved b; occasional day's sport with gun or in riding matches aga his neighbor's horses. If for endowed him poorly with ? 1 she gave him what was farr valuable--a business-like 1 thrifty turn of mind, unflag * application, and a determina : to win." He p?id that same c 3 attention - to the details L minutiae of all his commercia r rangements and sp?cul?t which enabled him subsequent 3 clothe, arm and subsist his ire 1 in the field without help from r Confederate government. result was that by the time he , reached twenty-one he had pla s his immediate belongings bey f all fear of want. * Many stories are told of 8 prowess with rifle, revolver e bowie knife when quite a yo ?'" A bullying neighbor had a bul r which frequently broke thro d Forrest's fences to feed up?E 18 growing corn. The owr ,e attention was repeatedly calle p this, but without effect, foi * thought he could easily brow' 'e his hobbiedehoy complain Roused at last by the bailo in depredations, Forrest warned s. that he would shoot the ani m the next time he found him or rb farm. This threat he carried ee While Forrest was reloading? ld bullying neigebor appeared u re the scene, fully armed in west vv- fashion, and at once proceede< se climb over the fence which id. arated them. Forrest took in ad position in a moment; one br nt other must die or run fot it ns would not be that one. No* ne never, thought he"; so, tal re- steady aim he sent a ball thn lia bully's clothes. This shave lal his life staggered the would-be as sa il ant, and he fell from the fe ras to run back home 'as fast a ity could. He never again attemp ide any trick upon his cool yo rly neighbor, whose reputation he courage and determination to 1 ion nis own against all hectoi io's bluster was thenceforward gei Uet ally recognized- Without sue ost reputation, life then on Arkansas frontier would have 1 the intolerable. nly Successful as a farmer, he af i of ward took to horse dealing, lim excellent judge of that noble i nial, he was very fortunate at thu business. By thrifty managemenl bf his gains, he was soon able t< embark in the still more remuner - ?tive but most d?testable occupa tion of slave dealing. Even among the planters who used the service* bf those who bought and sold theil fellow man, those engaged in thii nefarious traffic were held in verj general contempt. By all '?vho ther knew. Forrest.' hewever, he w.as re rded as a humane man, wh( ?erar in nis slave dealings; sepa rated the members bf the familiei ^hich he bought and soldi At'thif disgusting abd degrading bu sine SE he ?realized a consid?rable fortune and soon b?camehims?lf a plahtei I on a large scale. His,many adventures with pistol I aiid bowie knife, on shore and oi bbilerexpiosions on the Mississippi rj|r?r would alone form an inter esting article. But I must hurrj on td his military career, whicli began at the opening of the s?ces sion war in the summer of 1861. was then already. a man ol mark ?nd influence in his own dis trict, and, like nearly every South erner, held very strong opinions ae teethe right of each State to regu its iown destiny. In June, 18pl, he joined the Tennessee Mounted-Rifles, the cavalry com pany ~tben being raised in Mem ! phasV He was in the prime of life and vigor, erect in figure, and over si&feet in height, with broad chest arid should?rs. He required good horses to carry him, for he already w?&h?d over th ir t?eri stone. Like ma|iy of the American officers of that time, he allowed his dark, I straight hair to grow-long and wore it cbmbed back from.the forehead ; bu|' while he shaved his cheeks, iio^zor ever touched. hnV lips or Several prominent Confed officers affected the style and lg of their cavalier fore fat???rs, and seemed especially tc demise the roundhead "crop" oi .thSjregular army;. [ Their broad ?- j. -v" "si ..... .>. ? .?/. . ',. l. - t-ii;.- Co 1 B. !> I a 9. i I I S d t. k h is 's x> te ? it. :'s m al Iii it tis >n rn' to ip. he he h? or ng igt for as ?ce fie ed mg for old mg ier o. a the cen ter An mi ment of volunteer cavalry. Th| general officer commanding in thi district waB Bishop Polk, who, re hnquishing the crozier for the sa bre, fought gallantly throughou the war until he was killed ii June, 1864, during the Atlant campaign. In England we hav had many soldiers who becam bishops, and several bishops wh tooTcIthe fi?ld when circumstance required them to do so, but Generf T?lk?s the last English speakin bishop who was killed in action. Cut Off from all the workshoi of 'thejNorth, itwas no easy ma ter for Forrest to find arms for h newly rais?d regiment. After son difficulty he succeeded, howeve not duly in buying 5?0 Colt's na\ revolvers in Louisville, but i carrying them off from under tl yery noses of the United Stati authorities in that city.' Before many months had passe a whole battalion of eight coi p?niesyof mounted men had be< enlisted^ equipped and duly arme and they elected Forrest tosM 'their lieutenant colonel. For i firsTfcighteen months of the. w the officers in all the Confeder? regiments were elected bv the mc a system which led to su extremely bad results that it ' h to be altered to one of selection the secretary of war upon \ recommendation of the gene officers commanding in :l field. r The first station of this new raised regiment was Fort Don?is from which place companies w snit to watch the movements the federal gunboats on \ Cumberland and Tennessee rivi and one squadron was sent e to the Ohio. In their frequent counters with these gunboats i their attacks upon armed steam laden with supplies of all ki for the northern troops in the fl Forrest not only gained great perience himself, but taught men the duties of the "moss t?o of old, the mounted raider of present age. Many of his i were first-rate shots, and he ? taught the. others to become As soon as a gunboat opened ports and came into action, heavy was the musketry poured into them from parties Forret's men concealed ?n river's banks, that .very often sailors would not stand to t i gun's, and the naval commander fc upon several occasions was only ) too glad to up anchor and. drop . down stream out of fire. By p degrees he taught his men to have ; confidence in themselves, in the j power of their rifles, and to be i accustomed to the heavy shell fire i which these gunboats poured upon r; them whenever possible. They i soon learned to realize that this . sort of fire was more terrifying ) and appalling in sound than, ? killing in its effects. It frightened J and demoralized far more men ? th?n it wounder. He trained his i men to make war after his , own fashion, but he drilled, them : very little, especially at first, because he knew nothing of drill I himself. He applied his own ' common sense to carry opt the i war instinct that was in him. ? His mind was not narrowed by ' military apothegms learned by i rote, and his actions were ? unhampered by military regula tions of any sort. He knew what .? he wanted to accomplish, and he . went for that object with all the ? cunning of an Indian, all the i common sense of a business - man. ? General Forrest did in the field what my able engineer comrade felt an active-minded business man like Mr. Brassey would have done for us at Sebastopol; that is, lie went at any job he undertook in a sound, businesslike fashion, and by the shortest line, prompted by the common sense reasoning , that was natural to him. Expe dients came to him without mental effort, and were adapted to meet each particular case as it arose justas tht American engineer of resources drives a road or a c railway through a howling wilderness of woods and rocks and mountains, hundreds of miles 1 away from all complicated ! contrivances, and often entirely unassisted by modern machinery. Forrest, the backwoodsman 4,u^ .? ii - ??fl :? r> aiK- r? .1 . * '....]. ,Tt St : . . . . . . . . his operations be carefully ex amined by the most pedantic mili tary critic, they will seem as if de signed by a military professor, so thoroughly are the principles of tactics, when broadly interpreted by a liberal understanding, in ac cordance with common sense and business principles. The art of war was an instinct :n him, its ob jects must necessarily be evident to most men, but the ways and methods by which those objects could and should be secured came of themselves into the untaught brain of this fearless soldier, thie general by intuition. His favorite maxim was : "Wai means fighting and fighting meant killing." Hence it was his track waf usually marked with blood, and the dead bodies of his enemiet were the records he left of fierce charges down roads and of Federa camps or bivouacs taken by sur prise, rt may be asserted withou contradiction that no man oi either side killed so many adver saries with his own hand as h did during that long war. Forrest's first real fight did nc come off until the last week c 1861. Up to that time he ha practiced his men in long,marche and accustomed them to life i the open air during cold and vei trying weather. He thus tempere and hardened his young voluntee: to the hardship and rough life i a soldier in the field, and he hi time to shake down himself in the, to him, novel position of cor manding officer. On the 28th December, 1861, Forrest hi marched his regiment, then 3< strong, about twenty miles ov execrable roads, either deep wi mud or rendered barely passai from frost. In the neighborho of Rumsey, Ky., he came upon fresh trail of the anemy, who learned from the inhabitants we 450 in number. A gallop of t miles brought him into conti with the federal rear guard, ne the village of Sacramento. ? more than half of his men h been able to keep pace with hi but with them he charged dov the road and drove in the r< guard upon the main body, ordered his men to fall back, the hope of drawing the enei after him, and in this way bringing them nearer to the ! mainder of his regiment, the n of which kept dropping in by fives and sizes. In this he succeeded. Dis mounting about half his men, he directed them to fall upon the enemy's flank, while with the re mainder on horseback he bore down along the road, upon his center. The rifle fire in flank from these dismounted detachments was too much for the federal cavalry, who, in spite of their officer's gal lant efforts to make them stand,, broke and bolted to the rear. Many were the hand to hand encounters and hairbreadth escapes of the southern leader that day, but his loss was smail, while the federals suffered very severely. It was not so much the defeat of the enemy he rejoiced at as the confidence this insignificant success gave 'his men in their own strength .and prowess. His second in command, "Colonel Kelly, who before the war had been a clergyman-or, in southern language, "a preacher" was as gallant a soldier under fire as ever smelled powder in any war. In a note written soon after this ^ action Kelly refers to his leader in the following terms : ] "It was the first time I had ever ' seen the Colonel in the face of the enemy, and when he rode up to me 1 in the thick pf the action I could 1 scarcely believe him to be the man I had known forv several months. 1 His face flushed, till it bore a strik ing resemblance to a painted In- .( dian warrior's, and his eyes, usually 1 mild in their expression, were blaz- { ing with the intense glare of a panther's springing upon its prey. * In fact he looked as little like the * Forrest of our mess table as the storm of December resembles the ' quiet of June." ) Although I cannot pretend to fol low this great leader of mounted troops through his many hard * fought battles, I have dwelt upon this, his first engagement, because * it fairly illustr?tes..Iii? TV,r'1 "i: ?if? H<t"*'! - "', . iatTU'litfO panies pressed the enemy's flanks, and piled them with a storm of rifle bullets. His personal con tempt of danger was remarkable, and it was his practice to be alway in front of his troops. With his acute judgement and power of perception he was thns generally able to find out for himself the enemy's weak point, and having ascertained it, he forthwith weut for it with a dashing determination very difficult to resist. No man ever exposed himself more in action then he invariably did, and no man ever impressed those he led, and among whom he lived with a more universally acknowledged sense of leadership. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Distance Covered by a Waltz. Mr. Edward Scott, in his Dan cing and Dancers, makes the foil owing estimate of the distance actully waltzed over in an evening by a belle of the ball room : "Do you/ my fair and fragile reader,' think you would go six times around a moderate-sized ball room, say, making a circuit of eighty yards during a waltz? Yes, at least, even allowing for rest That, then, is four hundred an<3 eighty yards, if you went in a straight line. But you are turn ing neatly all the time,'say on ai average once in each yard o: onward progress, and th? circumference of a circle is rathe more than three times it diameter, which will bring ead waltz to over three-quarters of mile, or, at least fourteen mile for eighteen waltzes.-Chicag Amer'.can. The Nebraska Agricultuial El oeriment Station' after sevan experi ments, has announced tht taking the tassels out of ever other row of corn lessens the yiel instead of increasing it It is tl general belief that if the tasse are pulled out of half the stall in a field that the stalks, tin treated, will make a larger yiel of corn than those left with tl tassels in. But science stan< again s that opinion and says tl largest yield is made when tl tassels remain. When a man is praying for corn crop God loves to see hi say amen to it with a hoe. HAD HEB WAY ABOUT Kian Nor the Elements Gan Ma a Woman Hurry. She looked very bewitching, standing there before the mirror, in her ball dress of soft, white, slinging stuff. A lovely woman Kras she, and the stoniest of cynics :ould not blame her -for smiling in admiration of her beauty re flected back to her in the polished ajlass. As she lingered thus there ?vas a sudden movement of feet in the hall below. She listened. "Charley mustn't get impatient," me raurmered. "I shall not be ready any sooner." With puff in hand she was en hancing by a deft touch here and there the alabaster whiteness of the glorie us complexion. A knock ?ounded at the door. "In a minute," . she sweetly ob served. "Tell Charley I'll be ready in a minute." She was applying the puff with the most engaging deliberation. The knock was repeated louder than before. "Run for your life," roared a rough voice through the keyhole, .the house is on fire." J3he was looking archly over her moulders to gain a side view of aer queenly figure. "In one minute," she softly, re plied. One of the golden tresses had ?scaped from the restraining pins ind hung mockingly beside the shell-like ear. "Dear me," she exclaimed, petu lantly, "it does seem as if some thing must go wrong all the time." In re-adjusting her coiffure she iislodged some of the ?powder from aer glorious cheek. "Plague take it; I shant-" "Fire, fire," rang the distracted shouts through the whole house. * "In a minute, I say. I do wish ?hey would ; be a little more . . ^nt." . -entry the ?.?enano" J ??t Ul UlllltibV, .~r~_' : tones--t ones tha n*?ure makes her sweetest sound and places m the throat of woman. "The fire is right under you." "I'm coming directly." With a last smiling glance at the co?nterfit of her beautiful self, she carelessly threw a cloak about her snowy shoulders and opened the door. . "I'm ready." They were obliged,the stairway being burned, tv jarry her down a ladder, but the triumph was hers. Neither man nor elements could make her hurry at her toilet. Christian Philosophy. A lie in the heart is as black as it is in ahorse trade. 'To love an enemy is the only possible way of destroying him. > When you go to church to help the Lord, don't wear squeaky shoes. If you have given God your heart, why don't you stop wearing a long face? There is a deal of praying for missions that never puts any money in the basket. Th ere are still too many people who enjoy seeing a tin pan tied to the tail of some, other man's dog. It is doubtful whether the Lord ever made a man who could be a church sexton and please the whole congregation. The religion that proposes to sell oyster soup by the dish whenever the church wants money, is not the kind that the devil is afraid of. The congraganon that will pay its pastor well for telling them the truth about themselves, is one' that wouljl be watched with a great deal of interest by the angels.-Ram's Horn. E vari s says when the Baptists came to Rhode Island they praised. God and fell on their kneeis, then they fell, on the aborigi-ness When I asked the ex-Secretary about the settlement of Rhode Island he said : "Yes, the Dutch settled Rhode Island; then the Yankees settled the Dutch." Spurgeon: The greatest works have heen done by the units, and I would rather choose the solitary hero in truth than go with the majoity to the evil. Alphonse Karr: Some people are always finding fault with nature for putting thorns on roses. I always thank her for having put roses on thorns.