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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Forrest's Exploit in Georgia. (search)
some 29 miles west of Rome. Here Forrest promptly sent in a flag of truce and demanded the surrender of the whole Yankee command. This was the boldest game of bluff on record. Forrest, with less than 500 men, on worn-out horses, demanding the surrender, far out in the country, on a fair field, of 1,368 privates and 101 officers all well armed and in line of battle! For cool audacity, it excels all history or imagination. It must be remembered that when he sent back Roddy and Edmondson, he started on the chase with about 800 men, ten of whom had been killed, forty wounded, others left, and details sent back till his actual force was less than 500. During the chase he had captured and sent back over 300 of the Yanks. Upon this bold demand a parley ensued between Gen. F. and Col. Strait, that resulted in the surrender of the entire command, with 1,500 mules and horses, 60 carbines and pistols, 1,300 Enfield rifles, side arms, and divers other articles, amounting in a