Excerpt from Protecting Sherman's Lifeline: The Battles of Brices Cross Roads and Tupelo, 1864When General Forrest was in West Tennessee in March and April, Sherman telegraphed Gen. Cadwal lader C. Washburn, the commander in Memphis, not to disturb the Confederate cavalryman, because he could do less harm by cavorting over the country there than elsewhere. Grant, however, could see that Forrest was recruiting his command while harassing and destroying isolated Union garrisons, and he directed Sherman to send enough troops to Memphis to chase Forrest back into Mississippi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.