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Show Forrest'a Principle. Horo Is a brief summing up of Gen. N. H. Forrest: "Ho was a ,man of humble birth and little education, a trader In. slaves and mules, grave, silent, unobtrusive, nut possessed of inllitary gcnliiB of a high order. As a leader of cavalry ho, was unequalod and know no fenr. During his service ho, was destined to tako pin t In 129 ac-tlous, ac-tlous, nnd to hayo 27 horses shot mi-'dor mi-'dor him, In ono torso' sentence he summed up his art of war: 'To git thar flrut with tho mosi men.'" From tho "Appeal to Arms and tho Civil War." ij |