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To: Solon who wrote (8575)	7/17/2010 12:54:05 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"Great mind" - he had enough sense to throw up his hands and surrender instead of dying like many of the poor men in his command. "His scheme"? Oh yeah, burn a bridge spanning a creek and that'll stop Forrest's cavalry. If the bridge burning was so important, why didn't he see that it be done? Or did he invent the order afterward to cover his ample ass? I looked it up and this bridge was only a bridge over a creek. Not some river that would hold up cavalry. Both Forrest and the Union troops were west of the Tennessee river, the only major river in the area that would present a crossing problem for mounted cavalry.