Forrest has caused enormous damage at very…
November 1864 CE
Forrest has caused enormous damage at very low cost.
He reports only two men killed and nine wounded.
He describes the Union losses as four gunboats, fourteen transports, twenty barges, twenty-six pieces of artillery, $6,700,000 worth of property, and one hundred and fifty prisoners.
One Union officer describes the monetary loss as about $2,200,000.
Forrest's command, delayed by heavy rains, proceeds to Perryville, Tennessee, and eventually reaches Corinth, Mississippi, on November 10.
During the raid, on November 3, Beauregard designates Forrest's cavalry for assignment to Hood's Army of Tennessee.
Hood elects to delay his advance from Florence to Tuscumbia until Forrest is able to link up with him on November 16.