This is all academic. We are moving. To do this is being made much more difficult than necessary.  When the Texas Cavalry Brigade was told to move, they moved, often quickly, and for great distances. They were solgging in mud in rain in Mississippi and were told to move to Tennessee.  It did not take long and they were on the way. In January 1864 they were doing little when Ross picked them up, put them into the mud and cold moving rifles across the Mississippi. In May 1864 they were looking for deserters and quickly found themselves in Georgia fighting Sherman.

Yahoo is not moving, but is doing away with excess termanology. Geocities.yahoo.com is rather long.  I have been reading Wills, Nathan Bedford Forrest. Each time he was told to move he either had to collect an Army to move or reorganize the pieces of one that just came out of horrific battle.  You might say he did away with his excess.

I hope this move does away with excess. Ross just moved. When he was told to take a detachment and cross all of Tennessee and attack a raid into Alabama from Chatanoga.  Ross met it with his force and caused the raid to think it had run into a Division. It soon hightailed it back to Chatanoga. I have searched high and low for more on this raid. Last week I was in Lebanon Tennessee where both Forrest and Morgan had operated, and found reference to Ross and to Sam Houston. Houston opened his law office there and Ross passed through.

I have all types of references in documents and books of Forrest working with and directing Ross and his Texas Brigade. In Wills book he finally references Ross in the Hood Retreat from Nashville and Franklin. In the earlier Thompkin's Station battle in 1863 Ross was not mentioned, but he was in the thick of the battle.

This is a problem.  Ross had sen an officer to the rear to write the brigade story. With him was a chest with captured standards and historical orders and letters. the officer died and his wife could not save the chest from the revages of war. Only a small amount of the material and data escaped.  Victor Rose finally wrote from the material gained at reunions and from letters. His story was less than totally factual. He did not even mention Ross' capture and quick release.

In July the blog moves to Yahoo. I have no idea what the address will be. But will write from you from there in the future.