Chapter-14 Folks were still laughing and slapping each other on the back and saying: Yes, sir! When old Nathan Bedford Forrest gets after them, they better git! Late in April, Colonel Streight and eighteen hundred Yankee cavalry had made a surprise raid i

Folks were still laughing and slapping each other on the back and saying: Yes, sir! When old Nathan Bedford Forrest gets after them, they better git! Late in April, Colonel Streight and eighteen hundred Yankee cavalry had made a surprise raid into Georgia, aiming at Rome, only a little more than sixty miles north of Atlanta.