Word: streight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said.) At Thompson's Station, Tenn. he drove a Federal battery and mounted troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces. At Black Creek, in 1863, after five days marching and fighting, he captured the Union's Colonel Abel D. Streight with all his artillery and 1,200 men. So disruptive were his raids that General Sherman once said that Forrest must be taken "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury." Forrest never was taken. At the war's end he weighed a plan to escape with...
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