MORE ON FORREST AND HIS HORSES
Sep 21, 2021
2 minutes
on “Majestic Mounts” in the September issue mentions that Nathan Bedford Forrest had some 30 horses shot out from under him. One of them was Highlander, who was shot in the neck while Forrest was pursuing the enemy the day after the Confederate victory at Chickamauga in September 1863. Forrest, as the story goes, plugged his finger
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