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- GLC#
- GLC04940
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 May 1863
- Author/Creator
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877
- Title
- to the authorities of Rome, Georgia
- Place Written
- Georgia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Forrest, commander of a cavalry brigade in the Army of Tennessee, writes from Headquarters (of an unspecified post), "twenty miles west of Garrison." Informs the authorities of Rome "There is a Federal Force of Fifteen Hundred cavalry marching on your place I am pursuing them prepare your selves to Repulse them- they have 2 Mountain Howitzers. I will be close on them I have kild 300 of thir men They are Runing for their lives."
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