I will leave Forrest in his dispatches to tell what he did with them.
"The river was dyed," he says, "with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards.

The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping.

My loss was about twenty killed.

It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners." Subsequently Forrest made a report in which he left out the part which shocks humanity to read.
At the East, also, the rebels were busy.

I had said to Halleck that Plymouth and Washington, North Carolina, were unnecessary to hold.