The history of the state of Indiana from the earliest explorations by the French to the present timeContaining an account of the principal civil, political and military events from 1763 to 1903 . SENATOR JOSEPH E. McDONALD. THE OPENING OF 1864. 385 in the part entrusted to him, but let his command meetwith a great disaster. At that time, especially in the West,the Confederates were much superior in cavalry, not onlyin the number of sabres, but in the talent of the officers incommand. The boldest and the ablest of the Confederatecavalry commanders was Forrest, He was bold in his con-ceptions, r
The history of the state of Indiana from the earliest explorations by the French to the present timeContaining an account of the principal civil, political and military events from 1763 to 1903 . SENATOR JOSEPH E. McDONALD. THE OPENING OF 1864. 385 in the part entrusted to him, but let his command meetwith a great disaster. At that time, especially in the West,the Confederates were much superior in cavalry, not onlyin the number of sabres, but in the talent of the officers incommand. The boldest and the ablest of the Confederatecavalry commanders was Forrest, He was bold in his con-ceptions, rapid in his execution, and a veritable thorn inthe side of all the Union commanders. At the time of theMeridian Kaid, he was in Northern Mississippi. GeneralGrant planned to have him met by a superior force andcrippled effectively for some time to come. For this purpose a force of seven thousand men was as-sembled at Memphis, placed under the command of Gen-eral W. Sooy Smith, and ordered to move directly on Me-rif ian, where he would meet Sherman, who was to movewith an infantry force out from Vicksburg. Smith was or-dered to move by the 1st of February. General Shermancautioned him as t
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