Deflection

First, I pulled into a campground just before dark that has little to no internet signal, so I am typing from my I Pad. As for me, it has been kind of a slow day. This afternoon I went through the interpretative canter for Brice Crossing Battlefield.

It was toward the end of the war, General Sherman was wanting to push the south further south to put an end to the war. This was going fine, until General Samual Sturgis’s 8,100 infantry meet the south’s General Nathan Forrest 3,500 man force. With General Forest having the same genius for war as Abraham, as reported by the historian Shelby Foote, he out maneuvered Sturgis’s infantry and sent them packing back to Memphis. The Union also had colored soldiers in their infantry. Although this was a quick stop today, it did reveal the genius of General Forrest.

Since I have a poor internet connection this evening, I am typing on my I Pad. I plan to spend all tomorrow here in Tupelo, Elvis Presley’s boyhood home, I will move to another campground to get a better internet reception for tomorrow evening.

Roger