1864 Confederate AUGUSTA Georgia Civil War newspaper w GENERAL NATHAN B FORREST

1864 Confederate AUGUSTA Georgia Civil War newspaper w GENERAL NATHAN B FORREST. 1864 Confederate AUGUSTA Georgia Civil War newspaper with news of GENERAL NATHAN B FORREST returning from the BATTLE of CHICKAMAUGA, Tennessee. SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL CONFEDERATE Civil War NEWSPAPER, the. (GA) dated January 6, 1864. This original Confederate Civil War newspaper contains a prominent front page headline: SUCCESSFUL RETURN OF GEN.

This has news of the successful return of Forrest from th BATTLES of CHICKAMAUGA, Georgia and CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee. This issue also contains a front page ad placed by a Jewish slave broker in Augusta, GA - SOLOMON COHEN. Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 - October 29, 1877) was an. After the war ended, Forrest was elected to lead the.

As its first and only. Though not a founding member, serving almost two years from the 1867 inception of his title, until his order to dissolve the organization in January 1869. Forrest served with the main army at the. On September 18-20, 1863, in which he pursued the retreating U. Army and took hundreds of prisoners.

Like several others under Bragg's command, he urged an immediate follow-up attack to recapture Chattanooga, which had fallen a few weeks before. Bragg failed to do so, upon which Forrest was quoted as saying, What does he fight battles for? Forrest (along with other subordinates of Bragg) was not blameless for the disorganization that had led Bragg to decide against pursuit after the Chickamauga victory. He and Wheeler had regularly failed throughout the entire Chattanooga campaign to gather intelligence on the disposition of Union forces, in Forrest's case because he often involved himself in the thick of battles where he could not gather this information. Forrest also failed tactically on the first day of battle, moving his troops north up the creek in response to a perceived threat instead of screening the Confederate advance as he had been ordered to.

As a result, the time it took the infantry to fight for the crossings at Alexander's and Reed's bridges allowed General. To shore up his Union defenses in the area. That night, Forrest again declined to screen the army's right flank; if he had he would have found a wide gap in the Union lines, a misstep that has been called "the most significant intelligence oversight of the entire battle" as it left Bragg utterly uninformed about Union dispositions even as he planned a counterattack. The next morning a poorly planned attack Forrest initiated in that area led to heavy casualties and delayed the counterattack. In an attempt to build a foothold to retake Chattanooga, Bragg ordered Forrest and Wheeler north after the battle in order that they might disrupt Rosecrans's fragile supply line from Nashville.

Allowing Rosecrans to consolidate his hold on the city, leading Bragg to describe Forrest as "nothing more than a good raider" as he signed orders to transfer Forrest out of his command, to western Tennessee, a month or so later. This supposedly led to a meeting where Forrest confronted and threatened Bragg's life, calling him a coward and saying "you might as well not give me any orders, for I will not obey them", one of several instances in his career where Forrest was openly insubordinate to his superior officers. It is now considered to be. Although it was repeated in biographies published with Forrest's approval, suggesting it reflected his assessment of Bragg. On December 4, 1863, Forrest was promoted to the rank of.

This Confederate Civil War newspaper is complete as a single sheet issue. The single sheet newspaper format was used by many Southern newspapers due to the scarcity of paper in the South during the Civil War.

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