Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1898 — Imaginative Eyesight. [ARTICLE]

Imaginative Eyesight.

After General Forrest's raid into Memphis, large stories were told about his heroism and the marvelous doings of his troops. One of the best Illustrations of the admiration inspired by the general came from a negro soldier, who claimed to have seen him, as he rode up in front of the Gayoso Hotel. He began telling his companions how Forrest looked, and finally came to the appearance of his horse. “I was a-stan’in’ right in dis alley,” said he, “when I seen him come up. He rid his hoss right up to de hotel; an’ —l’m tellin’ you de truf—he hitched his hoss right to de second-story banisters. I seed him. I tell you I seed him!”—Youth’s Companion.